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- Disastrous lightning for breaking tabu. C984.5
- Saint destroys disastrous insects. D2156.6
- Hector warns Trojans against attacking the stronger Greeks. Warning disregarded. Disastrous defeat. J652.4.1
- Disastrous jump to retrieve lost object. J2146
- Disastrous hesitation. J2183
- Numskull praises his daughter as being pregnant. He tries in vain to sell his cow and succeeds only when he says that she is with calf. When suitors come wooing his daughter, he tries the same plan disastrously. J2427
- Man saved from well by rope. Disastrous attempt to save him from tree in same way. J2434
- Disastrous following of misunderstood instructions. (To burn land, then sow seed. Opposite done.) J2460.1
- Disastrous following of instructions. J2465
- Deception into disastrous attempt to procure food. K1020
- Cock's advice proves disastrous to himself. He causes the ox and the ass to rebel but the master learns the cause of the trouble and kills him. K1633