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Motifs
- Transformation when one expresses astonishment at smith drawing water in an egg-shell. (Cf. C491.) D512.1
- Magic object represses lust. D1356
- Magic girdle represses lust. (Cf. D1057.1.) D1356.1
- Saint's girdle represses lust. (Cf V220.) D1356.1.1
- Magic stone represses lust. (Cf. D930.) D1356.3
- Life token: ring presses finger. (Cf. D1076.) E761.7.1
- Nightmare (Alp). Presses person in dream. F471.1
- Man presses out twelve measures of oil without the help of bullocks. F639.7
- Object expresses sorrow. F994
- Putrescence flows from head when man presses forehead. F1041.18
- Man senseless from grief at hearing of father's death; one doesn't feel that he cuts himself with his knife, the other presses dice so that he bleeds. F1041.21.5
- Riddle: twelve cypresses with thirty boughs each. Years and months. H721.3
- Condemned man wins pardon by clever remark. Fool is allowed to jump off cliff (balcony) as punishment. Master expresses surprise that in three trials he has failed to hurl himself from the height. The jester offers the prince four trials. Amused prince pardons the jester. J1181.3
- Gun thought to be clarinet: one man blows, another presses the "keys". (Cf. K1057.) J1772.10
- Burning the jackal. He expresses horror of that punishment. Sets fire to village from his burning tail. Why he has burnt tip on tail. K581.5
- Stinging of buttocks as cure for cough. Patient applies stinging medicine and makes himself sore. He represses his cough to keep from hurting his hindquarters and is finally cured. N643
- The bird indifferent to pain. A man catches a mango-bird eating mangoes and strikes it against the roots of a mango-tree. The bird cannot be made to say it suffers from the blow. In turn, he puts it in water, strikes it on the ground, a stile, a door-frame, singes its feathers, cuts it up, cooks it, and eats it. The bird always expresses indifference in a cumulative rhyme. At last the bird asks him to look out of the window, whereupon it flies out of his nose and the man dies. Z49.3