33 motifs match “forgets”  ·  back to the chapters

• Why women keep washing themselves. St. Andrew, sent to get salt to keep people clean, gets drunk and forgets. There is only enough for men. A1372.10
• Compulsion: taking back talisman which opened treasure mountain. Hero takes treasure and forgets the talisman. C652
• Invulnerability lost if man forgets sweetheart. D1847.1
• Forgotten fiancée. Young husband visiting his home breaks tabu and forgets his wife. Later she succeeds in reawakening his memory. (For details of the ways in which the memory is lost and regained see D2004 and D2006. D2003
• Husband magically forgets wife. D2003.1
• Forgetting Charon's fee. Philosopher forgets to put coin in mouth before death (Charon's fee). Charon: "Don't you know the custom?" Answer: "Yes, but I couldn't put off dying for a quarter!" E489.3
• Soul forgets everything at birth. E705
• Man who forgets to count himself dies immediately after. E791
• Fairies bathe children in churn when housewife forgets to leave a supply of clear water for the fairies. F361.17.5
• Test of gratitude: magician makes pupil believe himself superior. Though he has promised magician great rewards he forgets his promise. Wealth removed. H1565.1
• "Bathe by yourself and not in the common bathing place": counsel proved wise by experience. Man forgets purse in bath house. J21.33
• Difficulty of thinking of God when occupied with worldly affairs. Shown by test: holy man made to carry milk without spilling. So occupied he forgets to think of God. J94
• The forgotten wind. Man allowed to manage the weather forgets to ask help of the wind. All goes wrong and he must give up management. J755.1
• Fox with three hundred fables ready to tell against lion conveniently forgets them. J811.6
• Husband and wife burn their mouths. A wife served overhot soup, forgets and burns herself so that tears come to her eyes She says that her departed father liked soup so much that she weeps when she eats it. The husband is also burned and weeps: "I am weeping because your accursed mother didn't take you with her when she died." J1478
• Numskull forgets name of certain food and thinks that it has fallen into sand. J1924
• Culture hero throws coconuts to various islands, but forgets one he stands on: hence none now on that island. J2031.3
• Actor forgets and speaks in his own person. J2041
• Fool forgets master's message. As result of his absent-mindedness he is given a heavy mortar to take to his master. The latter makes him return it as punishment. J2044
• Law student forgets his speech. Absurd results. J2046
• Given things for self and relatives, fool forgets to take his own. J2048
• Useless trip to find a name the wife already knew. Fool goes to astrologer for child's name, but forgets it on way home. Later wife happens to use the word and reminds him. But he cannot see the use of the trip when she already knew this word. J2241.1
• Fool keeps repeating his instructions so as to remember them. (He usually forgets them.) J2671.2
• Bungling fool forgets what elephant is called. Says it is an "earth egg" (confused with name for potatoes). J2671.3
• Irrevocable judgment causes judge to suffer first. Has decreed that no one enter a meeting armed. He forgets to remove his sword. Kills himself. M11
• The devil makes the herdsman's son a priest in return for a whistle. After quarreling with the devil, who asked to repair the whistle during Mass, the priest forgets all he learned and does not know how to hold Mass. Is beaten. M216.2
• Man forgets to wear magic gown and is killed. N339.6
• Father kills self believing that son is dead. The son forgets to spread white sails, the prearranged signal of his safety. (Told also of lovers.) N344
• Person has successive misfortunes while making plans because he forgets to say, "If God wills." (Cf. G224.1, J1217.1.) N385.1
• Cane as evidence of robbery. A man believing that he has killed a robber forgets his cane. Later finds it in robber's house. N614
• Father saves himself in storm and forgets his two children. They are abandoned in a boat. S141.2
• Nun forgets to hail Mary and goes into the world to sin. V254.5
• Fly forgets her name; asks woodcutter, axe, tree, etc., in vain. Finally foal in mare's belly says her name is "fly". Z25