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- Why women keep washing themselves. St. Andrew, sent to get salt to keep people clean, gets drunk and forgets. There is only enough for men. A1372.10
- Compulsion: taking back talisman which opened treasure mountain. Hero takes treasure and forgets the talisman. C652
- Invulnerability lost if man forgets sweetheart. D1847.1
- Forgotten fiancée. Young husband visiting his home breaks tabu and forgets his wife. Later she succeeds in reawakening his memory. (For details of the ways in which the memory is lost and regained see D2004 and D2006. D2003
- Husband magically forgets wife. D2003.1
- Forgetting Charon's fee. Philosopher forgets to put coin in mouth before death (Charon's fee). Charon: "Don't you know the custom?" Answer: "Yes, but I couldn't put off dying for a quarter!" E489.3
- Soul forgets everything at birth. E705
- Man who forgets to count himself dies immediately after. E791
- Fairies bathe children in churn when housewife forgets to leave a supply of clear water for the fairies. F361.17.5
- Test of gratitude: magician makes pupil believe himself superior. Though he has promised magician great rewards he forgets his promise. Wealth removed. H1565.1
- "Bathe by yourself and not in the common bathing place": counsel proved wise by experience. Man forgets purse in bath house. J21.33
- Difficulty of thinking of God when occupied with worldly affairs. Shown by test: holy man made to carry milk without spilling. So occupied he forgets to think of God. J94
- The forgotten wind. Man allowed to manage the weather forgets to ask help of the wind. All goes wrong and he must give up management. J755.1
- Fox with three hundred fables ready to tell against lion conveniently forgets them. J811.6
- Husband and wife burn their mouths. A wife served overhot soup, forgets and burns herself so that tears come to her eyes She says that her departed father liked soup so much that she weeps when she eats it. The husband is also burned and weeps: "I am weeping because your accursed mother didn't take you with her when she died." J1478
- Numskull forgets name of certain food and thinks that it has fallen into sand. J1924
- Culture hero throws coconuts to various islands, but forgets one he stands on: hence none now on that island. J2031.3
- Actor forgets and speaks in his own person. J2041
- Fool forgets master's message. As result of his absent-mindedness he is given a heavy mortar to take to his master. The latter makes him return it as punishment. J2044
- Law student forgets his speech. Absurd results. J2046