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Motifs
- Creation interrupted since God must go to a fire. A2286.1
- Industrial processes magically interrupted. D2084
- Devil interrupts mass by pretended battle. G303.9.9.2
- Judicial combat interrupted by friends of loser. H218.1
- Ruler interrupts meeting of Senate to amuse his small son. When rebuked for making him a whistle he says: "I would have blown it for him had he asked me to do so." J553.2
- None should interrupt or leave the room while story is told: treachery revealed. J1177.0.1
- Trickster's interrupted feast revenged. He is asked a question by his master each time he tries to eat a date, so that he always has to spit out the date. He revenges himself that night when the master tries to carry on an intrigue with his wife's maid. He comes with his answers at embarrassing moments. J1564.1
- Revenge by interrupting feast. A rabbi who has been inhospitably treated is afterwards invited to dinner. He keeps the guests so amused by his jokes that they fail to eat and the feast is spoiled. J1564.2
- The interrupted calculation. While the merchant is making calculations, he asks the age of his youngest daughter, the elder daughter, and the mother, and always adds this to the number he has reached. J2035
- Game with ancestors' bones. A boy interrupts a game played with the bones of his father or other murdered relative. P203
- Man interrupted each time he tries to eat something. X12
- Man continually interrupted from eating answers in rhymed monosyllables. X12.1