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- Music-box continues playing when it is touched contrary to tabu. C915.1.1
- Spinning wheel continues spinning because woman has worked at forbidden time. C916.4
- Man magically made to believe himself bishop, archbishop, and pope. When he continues to refuse payment to the magician, the latter shows him the reality. D2031.5
- Vampire's power overcome by endurance and prayer. Hero continues to pray without looking or speaking while vampire punishes him. E251.1.1
- Blazing stick continues to burn even in water. F964.4
- Devil comes and works with man who continues to work after night. G303.22.9
- Task: pasturing a cow which continues to run all day. H1112.2
- The doctor no longer needed. As the fool starts for the doctor the wife changes her mind. He continues to the doctor so as to tell him about it and to say that now he need not come. J2241
- Dupe digs till he dies of exhaustion. Rabbit entertains the wolf with his antics until the rabbit's wife can change to another hole. The wolf continues to dig. K1061
- Husband tries to reform wife by killing a recalcitrant horse in her presence. She thinks he has lost his mind and continues in her ways. T251.2.3.1
- Virgin forbids devil to take robber as long as he continues to say two "Aves" daily. V254.9
- Badly wounded warrior continues fighting. W33.1
- The liar outdoes the tricksters who try to catch him in a lie. He continues the lie the tricksters have made up to catch him. (Cf. K306, L142.1.) X909.2
- Watch continues to run indefinitely when lost (swallowed). X1755.1
- Lie: warrior whose horse is cut in two continues to ride on the half horse. X1864