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Motifs
- Fly punished for failing to answer question: is speechless, buzzes and associates with foul things. (Cf. A2426.3.3, A2433.5.2.) A2239.2
- Tabu: failing to heed message of god. C64
- Tabu: failing to make gift to magic lance. The lance kills offender. C835.2.1
- Two hundred years of unfailing life and happiness offered to warrior by fairy woman in exchange for one day's delay of battle. D1857.2
- Brotherly love and patience both dead. A man failing to receive alms in a village, rings the bell for mass. He tells the sexton that he is ringing because of the death of brotherly love. The sexton rings another bell. It is for the death of the other man's patience. J1633
- Forty wise men foretell violent rainstorm. Failing to convince people, they go into a cave. After the shower they come out. The people call them fools. J1714.3.1
- When he is looked at too threateningly hero feigns failing ability to go on horseback. K1777
- Tribe failing to attend yearly feast to send gift as sign of submission. P531.1