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Motifs
- Murder sounds heard just as they must have happened at time of death. E337.1.1
- Grass refuses to grow in certain spot. Extraordinary event has happened there. F974
- Devil takes form of girl's lover and takes advantage of her. She meets lover on way home, learns what has happened, dies. G303.12.5.7
- Princess to marry man who can give her correct account of what happened in her bedchamber. H344.1
- Task: naming those things which have not yet happened. H1026.1
- Which was the most generous – husband, robber, or lover? Woman has promised her lover to go to him on her wedding night. Husband lets her go. On way she meets robbers and tells her story. Robbers take her to her lover. She tells what has happened. Lover returns her immediately to her husband. H1552.1
- I know not how. Sick man: "I came to a place I know not where; something happened I know not how; I am sick I know not where." Doctor: "Go to the pharmacy and buy I know not what, and eat it I know not how, and you will become well I know not when." J1431
- Man refuses to lend horse: sued for consequent damages. The would-be borrower gets one from another neighbor. He overworks the horse and renders him useless. The owner of the horse sues the man who had refused to lend his animal. Reasoning: "If he had lent his horse this would not have happened to mine." Settled by compromise. J1552.3
- How the first man killed himself. The second fool imitates the first who leaps from a palm tree by means of a looped rope. The first kills himself. The second wants to see just how it happened and kills himself too. J2374
- Question: did the man ever have a head? A man's head is snatched off by accident and his companions do not see what has happened. Debate: did he ever have a head? J2381
- Innocent girl sells her "love" and later receives it back. When she tells her mother what has happened, she is beaten. Thinking to right matters, she demands that the knight return what he has taken. (Sequel: K1275.) K1362