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Motifs — first 20 of 38
- Donkeys ask immediate reward from God: eat their own excrements. A2232.11
- Dragon dips wounded part in holy well, is healed immediately. B11.12.1.2
- Tabu: speaking while gathering fernseed to make wishes come true, at midnight on Christmas Eve when fernseed ripens and falls immediately. C401.5
- Immediate death for breaking tabu. (Cf. C52, C51.3, C453, C533.) C921
- Immediate return to other world because of broken tabu. (Cf. C31, C31.4, C327.) C952
- Rod from magic hazel-tree kills snake immediately. (Cf. D956.) (Cf. D950.1, A2711.4.1.) D1402.10.2
- Magic cauldron boils only enough of its contents to satisfy immediate need. (Cf. D1171.2.) D1601.10.2.1
- The unquiet grave. (Cf. D2151.1.2.3.) Dead unable to rest in peace. Aside from the references given in the numbers immediately following, see E200–E399 passim. E410
- Revenant with hat of birch. Note: in the motifs immediately following, it is frequently impossible to tell whether the spectral ghost (E421) or the living corpse (E422) is thought of. E422.4.1
- Man who forgets to count himself dies immediately after. E791
- Skillful gambler always wins. Whatever he earns in day he spends immediately. F679.7
- Sword of Damocles. Sword hung on thin thread immediately above person. F833.2
- Recognition by "force of nature". Unknown member of family immediately and magically recognized. H175
- Women swear falsely by their husbands and children, who immediately fall dead. H252.4.2
- Test of wife's obedience: not to eat leeks. Although she does not like them, she immediately begins to want them. H473.3
- Task: hatching eggs immediately; countertask: sowing seeds and bringing in crop next morning. (Cf. H951, H952.) H1023.1.2
- 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
- Adam's (Eve's) disobedience blamed: blamer immediately disobeys orders. (Cf. H1554.1.) H1557.2
- Old man contented till forbidden to leave city. Immediately disobeys. H1557.3
- Test of friendship: mourner says dead husband can be touched only by sinless person; volunteers for cremating body immediately disperse. H1558.12