• 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
• Rod from magic hazel-tree kills snake immediately. (Cf. D956.) (Cf. D950.1, A2711.4.1.) D1402.10.2
• 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
• Count only the waves before you. Fox sees man trying to count the waves. Advises him to count only those immediately before him and to pay no attention to those which have already passed. J311.1
• Priest must give up his charge or his mistress. Gives up his parish and immediately loses his fickle mistress. J705.1
• "Thief has the feathers sticking on his head": guilty woman immediately passes her hand over her head. J1141.1.5
• Getting all the eggs at once. A peasant kills his hen so that he can immediately get all the eggs she will lay during the next year. J2129.3

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