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Motifs
- Animal as constant attendant of man. B575
- Transformation to cure inconstant husband. He falls in love with another woman: his wife changes him to negro. He then falls in love with negress: wife changes him to ass. He then falls in love with she-ass. Finally restored to his original form. D662
- Magic object causes constant hunger. D1373
- Magic object causes constant thirst. D1373.0.1
- Fetish medicine causes constant hunger. (Cf. D1241.) D1373.1
- Constant replacement of fighters. In contest between gods and demons, latter are constantly slain and replaced. E155.1.1
- Soldiers of magic army constantly revived. E155.1.2
- Fairy avenges herself on inconstant lover (husband). F302.3.3.1
- Trolls as the constant enemies of humans. F455.6.9
- Bones of bird constantly thrown up from well. F933.8
- Ogre sings constantly, usually own name. G652
- Test of suitor's love and endurance by constant postponing. H317.4
- Scorned suitor consoles himself by realization that a wife who did not love him would be constant source of trouble. J877
- Night study. A thief having scorned Demosthenes for his constant study, the latter says, "I know that you have not failed to notice that I study much at night." J1394.1
- "Thank God it's over!" Man who has been promised a beating lives in constant dread. Is eventually beaten. He thanks God. J2568
- Foster father as constant helper. P271.5
- Foster brother as constant adviser. P273.1.3
- Man so constantly enriched by God that he cannot give all his goods to the poor. U71
- Virgin Mary destroys Moorish army besieging Constantinople. V268.3
- Constantine's vision of the Cross. V515.1.4