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Motifs
- Helpful animal's injunctions disobeyed. Disaster follows. B341
- Disaster because of broken tabu. C984
- Washers at the ford. Appearance of female figure washing bloody armor, chariot cushions, or human limb (at ford) as sign of coming disaster in battle. (Cf. A485.1, E761.1, M301.6.1, Z129.2.2.) D1812.5.1.1.6
- Ghost brings disaster on sailors. E271.1
- Wild hunt as omen of disaster. E501.20.1
- Dead predict calamity or disaster. E545.16
- Wraith appears before mine disaster. E723.8.1
- Life token. (Cf. E760.) Object (animal, person) has mystic connection with the life of a person, so that changes in the life-token indicate changes in the person, usually disaster or death. E761
- Devil appears to minister's serving man to warn of impending disaster to the house. G303.6.2.6
- Caesar's scorn of his wife's advice leads to disaster. J155.3
- The boy's disasters. Foolishly kills his horse and throws his axe into the lake to kill a duck. Undresses to recover axe. Clothes stolen. Goes into barrel of tar to hide. In tar and feathers. J2661.4
- Bridegroom to meet with disaster if he rides a certain elephant which comes to meet him. M340.4
- Presence of cursed person brings disaster to land. M491
- National disasters occur always at the same date. N128.1
- Immunity from disaster as reward. Q150
- City saved from disaster as reward. Q152
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