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Motifs
- Ass's behavior predicts the weather. B141.3
- Fairy predicts birth of child. F315
- Fairy predicts future greatness of newborn child. F317
- Fairy mistress strikes her disobedient human lover on the face and predicts death. F361.17.9
- Imitation of the prescription. A peasant envying a doctor's fee for giving him a plaster and predicting a son, poses as a doctor. He predicts a son for a eunuch and gives a plaster for heart disease. J2412.3
- Sham physician predicts the sex of the unborn child. "From one side it looks like a boy, from the other a girl." The woman bears twins and the husband pays the doctor. K1955.3
- Sham wise man accidentally predicts weather correctly. K1956.9
- Sham parson: the sawed pulpit. He has sawed the pulpit almost through. He predicts a miracle. The pulpit falls down. K1961.1.3
- Prophecy: criminal going to death predicts that his judge (king, prince) shall soon meet him. M341.4
- Queen chosen to live rather than king so that she can bear an heir to the throne. Serpents alleged to tell by their death which shall die first: male serpent predicts king's death; female, queen's. King has male serpent killed. P17.2