Thompson Q559.4: Peasants punished for working on feast day.

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Q559.4 describes peasants punished for working on a feast day. The account explicitly links forgetting the vow and working the Urbanstag with the lightning death.

• „ward ein Arbeiter mit seinen Ochsen auf dem Felde vom Blitz erschlagen.“

Wahrscheinliche Zuordnung · Textstelle

The source explicitly says a peasant woman persists in baking on St. Leonhard's feast day and her hands become stuck in the dough; Thompson Q559.4 is explicitly the punishment of peasants for working on a feast day.

• „blieben ihr auf einmal beide Hände im Teige stecken“

Wahrscheinliche Zuordnung · Textstelle

The full entry describes peasants punished for working on a feast day and gives being unable to leave the field as its example. Here two fishermen continue work on Christmas Day during the service, are rebuked for desecrating the feast, and are told that the river will no longer freeze before Christmas to remove this temptation. The source changes the punishment outcome and actors from the example, but directly presents the same feast-day labor and punishment relation.

• „Aber die Habgier verleitete sie, auch während der Kirchzeit noch ihr Werk fortzusetzen.“
• „Da stand plötzlich ein hoher ernster Mann neben ihnen, schalt sie wegen der Entheiligung des Festtages“

Wahrscheinliche Zuordnung · Textstelle

The woman works during Pentecost while the village attends the feast and is punished by sinking into the earth; this directly matches punishment for working on a feast day. The additional entry detail about peasants being unable to leave a field for several days is not the defining event stated in the short label.

• „Das hehre Pfingstfest war herangekommen“
• „Und kocht' im Wasser aus dem nahen Bronnen Das Garn“
• „Sie sinkt mit ihrem Kessel in den Grund“