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- Noah's curse admits devil to ark. Devil persuades Noah's wife to stay out of ark till Noah shall call devil in. Noah at last loses patience and calls out, "The devil! Come in!" The devil comes in and turns himself into a mouse. C12.5.1
- Test of wife's patience. Griselda. Children stolen and attendance at wedding to another demanded. H461
- Tests of patience. H1553
- Philosopher teaches son to beg before stone statues. In this way he will acquire patience. H1553.1
- Test of patience: king accepts strong reproof and criticism. H1553.2
- Test of patience: those who wish to enter city gate must endure insults of old men there who mock them. H1553.3
- Man shows his patience by accepting blow in face with stool thrown by his superior in monastery. H1553.4
- Monk fails in test of patience. He tries to live alone to test it. One day he loses his temper at a cup which overturns and he breaks it. [Inadvertant duplication of W185.4.] H1553.5
- Test of patience by asking irrelevant riddles. H1553.6
- Learning the virtue of patience from children. When their meals are stolen, they quietly search for them. J124
- King refuses to exile gossipers. They would defame him among strangers. At home they serve to test the king's patience and to reform his life. J215.1.2
- The overloaded mule. Priest complains that miller's mule is overloaded. "No, he isn't; he can still carry all your and your brothers' patience." J1302
- Brotherly love and patience both dead. A man failing to receive alms in a village, rings the bell for mass. He tells the sexton that he is ringing because of the death of brotherly love. The sexton rings another bell. It is for the death of the other man's patience. J1633
- The beggar on the cross in place of Christ. Is made to leave the cross for his impatience concerning the sinners. L435.4
- Why weavers have patience. P445.2
- Patience rewarded. (Cf. W26.) Q64
- Patience. W26
- Lack of patience. W196
- The wolf who wanted to make bread. The farmer explained to him how bread is made. He keeps on asking: "Shall I then be able to eat?" Decides he will not have enough patience to make bread. (Cf. K555.1.2.) Z49.5.2
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