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• God in successive animal forms. A132.0.1
• God takes form successively of ants, scorpion, and cobra. A132.0.1.1
• Series of creations. The present universe is the last of a succession of creations. A630
• Succession of creations and cataclysms. From the ruins of each earlier creation a new one is raised. A632
• Devil's unsuccessful attempt to vivify his creations as God has done. Succeeds only in making animal. A1217
• Man created after series of unsuccessful experiments. A1226
• Origin of death from bad creator's unsuccessful imitation. The bad creator attempts in vain to endow his creations with life like the good creator. Fails and thus introduces death. A1335.2
• Bad women from transformed hog and goose. Peter, having only one daughter, foolishly promises her to three men. He asks the Lord to create two others. This request is granted. The first creature he meets on two successive mornings he is to greet, and they will be transformed. He meets a hog and a goose. His two new daughters have these characteristics. A1371.3
• Devil's unsuccessful creation produces certain animals. (Cf. A1811, A1833.1, A1862, A1893.) A1755
• Devil produces animals only in God's name. He tries unsuccessfully without using God's name. A1756
• Creation of monkeys: old woman thrown into fire. In unsuccessful imitation of Christ, the smith throws an old woman into the fire. She becomes a monkey. (Cf. A1710.) A1861.2
• Two animals learn songs together – one successfully, the other unsuccessfully. (Cf. A2425.) A2283
• Fly indicates successful suitor. Girl to marry man on whom specially marked fly lights. B152.2
• Person frightened by animals successively replying to his remarks. Example: Man riding horse and followed by dog tells horse to jump over a hole. Horse says, "I will not." Man turns to dog and says, "Isn't that strange – a horse talking!" The dog says, "Yes, isn't it." Often the man runs, meeting other animals which answer him, until he falls exhausted. B210.1
• Animal tried out as messenger. Hen (cock) the only one successful. B291.0.1
• Unsuccessful attempt by enemy to kill helpful animal. B335.3
• Animal helps person to success in love. B582
• Bee-master puts consecrated host into beehive. Has success with his bees. (Cf. B259.4.) – When he dies, his spirit haunts the place. C55.3
• Clerics' voyage unsuccessful because they sailed in boats of skin. C841.0.1
• Magic appearance of human limbs. A boy has no hands and legs; his abandoned sister successfully commands them to appear or disappear. D61
• Protean beggar: Person assumes successive forms in order to beg. D611
• Protean sale: man sells youth in successive transformations. D612
• Transformation combat. Fight between contestants who strive to outdo each other in successive transformations. D615
• Disenchantment by holding enchanted person during successive transformations. D757
• Magic medicine brings success. (Cf. D1241.) D1561.1.4
• Saint declares that first man to come to certain place shall be his successor. Young cleric comes and is chosen. D1812.5.0.7.2
• Eyes successfully replaced. E781
• Limbs successfully replaced. E782
• Substituted limbs. Man borrows various limbs and successfully uses them. E782.0.1
• Head cut off and successfully replaced. E783.1
• Heart successfully replaced. E786
• Unsuccessful attempt to steal fairy necklace. F357
• Giants meet successively larger giants. F531.6.8.7
• Skillful hunter can tell from baying the succession of hounds and what quarry they pursue. F679.5.2
• Crown fits only legitimate successor to throne. H36.2.1
• Successful suitor to be without blotches. H312.1
• Successful suitor must have gold teeth. H312.2
• Successful suitor must have whitest hands. Blacksmith qualifies because of frequent washing of hands. H312.4
• Successful suitor must have the prettiest hands; not whitest, but dark with scars and gold rings. H312.4.1
• Successful suitor must have cheeks like blood, skin like snow and hair like a raven. (Cf. Z65.1.) H312.5
• Suitor contest: success in battle. H331.2.1
• King propounds questions to his sons to determine successor. H508.1
• Test: threading needle. Guest of convent is given choice of nuns. On the morrow he is given three opportunities to thread a needle. Success means reward, failure confiscation of his belongings. H509.1
• Heads placed on stakes for failure in performance of task. Unsuccessful youths are beheaded and heads exposed. Hero sees them when he sets out to accomplish his task. H901.1
• Succession of helpers on quest. One helper sends to another, who sends to another, etc. (Cf. H1241.) H1235
• Hero returning from successful quest sent upon another. H1241.1
• Forgiveness the reward of successful quest. H1244
• Watch for devastating monster. Youngest alone successful. H1471
• Precepts of the lion to his sons. Only the younger keeps them and is successful. J22
• Ruler learns lesson from the example of an exiled king. Rewards the exile rather than a successful merchant. J55
• Contentment with evil master for fear of worse successor. J229.8
• Unsuccessful marriage of jackals and turtles (different abits). J414.3
• Barber tries unsuccessfully to become a trader. J513.2
• Unsuccessful fishermen console themselves that their earlier high hopes balance up their disappointment. J866.1
• Urinalysis reveals coition as cure for illness. Treatment successful. J1149.4
• Testimony gradually weakened. Witness agrees to the following facts in succession: that the person relating the facts may have been in anger, that he may have misunderstood, that he may not have heard it at all. J1151.3
• Testimony of unsuccessful suitor discredited. Adulteress is surprised in intrigue by unsuccessful suitor. He threatens to tell her husband. She tells her husband that the scorned suitor has accused her falsely of indiscretion with many men. When the suitor tells the husband he does not believe him. J1151.4
• Bought behind the village. Lawyer declares unjustly that stolen horse has been bought and paid for. Angry farmer: "Yes, behind the village he bought and paid for it" (meaning that he stole it from the pasture). Lawyer pleads successfully that it is as well to buy a horse outside as inside the village. J1169.2
• Do not leave it to your successor. A widow stops a ruler on his way to war. He may be killed and he should not leave the act of justice as a credit to his successor. J1284
• Prearranged answers in Latin not always successful. (Essentially same as X111.9.) J1741.3
• Numskull as thief's assistant wakens owner. Pleads successfully that he was trying to awaken the household and prevent theft. J2136.5.4
• Imitation of magic rejuvenation unsuccessful. (Cf. J2401.) J2411.1
• Unsuccessful imitation of a god: lions fall out of the furnace instead of men covered with gold and silver. J2411.1.2
• Imitation of miraculous horse-shoeing unsuccessful. Christ takes off a horse's foot to shoe it and then successfully replaces it. (Cf. J2401.) J2411.2
• Unsuccessful imitation of magic production of food. (Cf. J2425.) J2411.3
• Imitation of magician unsuccessful. Person does self injury. J2411.4
• Imitation of magic production of garden and lake unsuccessful. J2411.7
• Unsuccessful imitation of magic sewing. J2411.8
• Bungling fool has succession of accidents. J2661
• Not to sleep for three successive nights. The sleepy man: "I am just thinking, that on earth there are more crooked trees than straight ones ... more hills than plains ... more water than land ..." The devil goes to ascertain these things, meanwhile the man sleeps. Unsuccessful imitation by another man. K216.3
• Playing godfather. By pretending that he has been invited to be godfather, the trickster makes an opportunity to steal the provisions stored by him and the dupe for the winter. When he returns on successive occasions he reports the name of the child as "Just Begun," "Half Done," etc. K372
• Thief successfully accuses owner of having stolen property he covets. K401.5
• Thief successfully claims that stolen goods are his own. K405
• Thief successfully claims that stolen image has been given him by the saint himself. K405.3
• The stolen cow successively pawned. In one night a thief pawns a cow four times, always stealing it immediately and finally delivering it back to its owner. K408
• Double reward successfully claimed. K441
• Saint who desires pottage of nettles containing no milk receives pottage into which milk has been poured surreptitiously through pipe. The secret is revealed, and the saint blesses the cook's successors. K499.2.2
• Escape by successive disguises. K533
• Fugitive disguises successively in different forms and deceives pursuer into self-injury. K533.1
• Formula-tale (Ehod) saves girl from devil. Unsuccessful imitation. (Cf. Z20.) K555.2.1
• Plot to induce king to commit a crime. His line thus will forfeit succession. K1166
• Seducer successfully disguised as washerwoman for fifteen years. Finally exposed. K1321.1.2
• Paramour poses as unsuccessful suitor. When surprised with the wife he tells the husband that he has been trying to force the woman, with no success. The wife supports the statement. K1517.5
• Paramour successfully hidden from husband. K1521
• Paramour successfully hidden in chimney (fireplace). K1521.1
• Paramour successfully hidden in chest. K1521.2
• Teacher instructs pupil in the art of love: cuckolded. Student, ignoring woman's identity, seduces the teacher's wife, and reports success to him. The teacher makes futile attempts to surprise wife with pupil. K1692
• Multiple disguise: one person disguising successively seems to be many. K1834
• Unsuccessful suitor pretends friendship with woman's husband. Kills him while on a hunt. K2022
• Woman slandered as adulteress (prostitute). (Usually by unsuccessful suitor.) (Crescentia, Genoveva, Susanna.) K2112
• Woman poisons her successful rival. K2221.1
• Heroine endures hardships with menial husband. Rewarded by his success. L113.1.0.1
• Successful foolish son. L115
• Half-wit successful. L121.1
• The stupid monk recovers the stolen flocks. A nobleman steals the abbot's flocks, saying that the monks have no use for them since they eat no meat. The most learned of the monks tries to recover them, but without success. The most stupid is then sent. Asked to dinner, he eats till he can hold no more. He tells the nobleman that he ate as much as possible since he could take back with him only what he had in his stomach. The nobleman pleased with the reply returns the flocks. L141.1
• Success of the unpromising hero (heroine). L160
• Lowly successful hero invites king and humbles him. L175
• Lowly successful soldier invites general and humbles him. L175.1
• Contest between wind (rain) and sun. Rain also tries unsuccessfully like wind. L351.1
• Vow to kill more successful rival. M149.3