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Motifs — first 20 of 23
- Origin of religious songs (chants). A1543
- Girl destroys crab shape of husband and disenchants him permanently. D719.2
- Loathly Lady. Man disenchants loathsome woman by embracing her. D732
- Loathly bridegroom. Woman disenchants loathsome man by embracing him. D733
- Swine bridegroom. Bride disenchants him by her love. He returns to original form. D733.2
- Girl disenchants animal husband by enduring his embraces without fear. D735.4.1
- Son disenchants animal father by enduring his caresses without fear. D735.4.2
- Disenchantment by sexual intercourse. Man disenchants woman in form of a bear. D743
- Girl disenchants her tiger-husband by putting a garland around his neck, sprinkling sand and water over him. D789.9
- Water chants song. (Cf. D1614.4, F931.12.) F930.6
- Witch injures, enchants or transforms. G263
- Satan chants songs of praise to God. G303.9.8.9
- Merchants try honesty for a year and find that it pays. So advised by priest when they said that they could not do business without dishonesty. J23
- Presumptuous smith chants the Divine Comedy. Dante throws his tools in the street. Blacksmith: "You ruin my work!" Dante: "You ruin mine!" J981
- Dante beats a mule driver who chants the Divine Comedy. J981.1
- Servants would not have left the coats. Merchants complain to nobleman that his servants have robbed them of money. Nobleman asks whether merchants had on those good coats when the robbery took place. When told yes, he said that the robbers were not his servants, for they would never have left good coats. J1179.5
- Prediction by bird that girl will have dead husband. (She disenchants him from magic sleep). M353
- Futile attempt to get rid of man by selling him to merchants as slave. P173.4
- Financiers and merchants. P430
- Merchants as spreaders of news. P431.1