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• 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
• 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
• Animal tried out as messenger. Hen (cock) the only one successful. B291.0.1
• Unsuccessful attempt by enemy to kill helpful animal. B335.3
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Double reward successfully claimed. K441
• Formula-tale (Ehod) saves girl from devil. Unsuccessful imitation. (Cf. Z20.) K555.2.1
• 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
• 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
• Successful foolish son. L115
• Half-wit successful. L121.1
• 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
• Fulfillment of prophecy successfully avoided. M391.1
• Prophecy of misfortune for prince avoided successfully in one respect. M391.1.1
• Chastity wager. A man makes a wager on his wife's chastity. In spite of unsuccessful attempts to seduce her and of false proofs presented, he wins the wager. N15
• Fortune of the lucky wife. A luckless man becomes successful in all his undertakings when he marries a lucky woman and lives by her luck. N251.5
• Gold found, concealed in bricks and successfully secured. N518
• Successful rival gives his lady to unsuccessful friend. P319.6
• Son insists on following father's trade. This has been kept secret at request of dying father who was unsuccessful. Son learns from mother. P401
• Princess builds tower of skulls of unsuccessful suitors. S110.3
• Princess makes necklace of heads of unsuccessful suitors. S110.3.1
• Unsuccessful attempts to kill person in successive reincarnations (transformations). S401
• Scorned lover kills successful one. T75.2
• Woman stricken by plague and forsaken by her husband is sought out by unsuccessful lover and dies in his arms. T88
• Unsuccessful search for man who can rule his wife. T252.1
• Woman successfully prays for disease to repel lover. T327.2
• Man unsuccessfully tempted by woman. (St. Anthony.) T331
• Monk unsuccessfully tempted in nunnery. T331.1
• Knight unsuccessfully tempted by host's wife. T331.2
• Monk unsuccessfully tempted by woman he formerly loved. T331.8
• Ascetic successfully tempted: kills son born in consequence. T338.1
• Animals try unsuccessfully to exchange food. U147
• Robbers promise to make offerings to the shrine of a hermit if successful. V113.2
• Man in hollow tree defends himself successfully from leopard and bear. X1854