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- Culture hero's (divinity's) expected return. Divinity or hero is expected to return at the proper time and rescue his people from their misfortunes. Often joined with A571. A580
- Origin of sickness and misfortune: monstrous births from brother-sister incestuous union. A1337.0.7
- The one compulsory thing. Unless one does this one thing, misfortune comes. (Sometimes one is under magic compulsion.) C650
- Injunction: sleep where night overtakes you. Otherwise misfortune will come. C683
- Injunction: to give sample of food to dog before eating. Misfortune follows failure to do so. C685
- Killing albatross causes misfortune to follow killer. C841.10.1
- Meeting ghost causes misfortune. E265
- Ghost haunts place of great accident or misfortune. E275
- Non-malevolent ghost haunts scene of former misfortune, crime, or tragedy. (C.f. E336, E337, E338, E339.) E334
- Fairy-like witch marries man and causes him misfortune. G264.4
- Riddle: how far is it from happiness to misfortune? H685
- How far is it from happiness to misfortune? One day; yesterday I was herdsman and now I am abbot. (Cf. H561.2.) H685.1
- Quest for the anger of God. Man is so fortunate that people say that he has everything but the anger of God. He seeks it and finds it with much misfortune. H1376.3.1
- Consolation for misfortune found in food. J861
- Poor man consoles self by thinking of misfortunes of rich. J883
- Consolation in misfortune – miscellaneous. J890
- Consolation: spiritual recompense for temporal misfortune. J893
- Banshees as portents of misfortune. M301.6.1
- Prophecy of general misfortune to newborn child. M340.3
- Prophecy of great misfortune. M340.6
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