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Motifs
- Disenchantment when superhuman task is finished. Enchanted person appears every seven years in human form and puts one stitch in a smock. When it is finished, she will be delivered. D791.1.2
- The deliverer in the cradle. Enchanted person can be delivered by child rocked in a cradle made from an oak sapling after it has grown great. D791.1.3
- Thief cannot remember whom he delivered the goods to. Though he has eaten the food trusted to him, he claims to have delivered it, but cannot remember the person who opened the door. K419.1
- Letter delivered to wrong man. He substitutes for the lover. K1317.2.2
- Pregnant abbess secretly delivered of her child by Virgin Mary. T401.1
- Queen delivered of a piece of flesh; abandoned and saved, it gradually separates into forms of boy and girl. T569.1
- Prolonged labor: woman has childbirth pains for 100 days but is not delivered. T584.5.1
- Sign language. Message delivered by means of the fingers, etc. Z175