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Motifs
- Medicines of forgetfulness and remembering. D1365.8.1
- Man is able to tell king dream which king himself does not remember. D1819.7
- Person remembers all he has ever learned. D1911
- Forgotten fiancée remembered by means of doll. D2006.1.6
- Forgotten fiancée remembered by means of bird. D2006.1.7
- Forgotten wife remembered by seeing her initials. D2006.1.9
- Reincarnation: former lives remembered. E601
- Remarkable power of recognition. Man remembers all people he has met. (Cf. F692.) F654
- Whole epic remembered from one hearing. F692.1
- Servant plays at being emperor. Master sees him and says, "Now that you are emperor remember your humble master." J955.2
- Dante is accused of not kneeling before sacrament. Says that he had his mind on God and did not remember what his body did. If those who criticized him had had their minds on God they would not have noticed it. J1261.2.5
- Old woman demands something that she would remember all her life: her nose cut off. J2072.6
- Healing with the cherry tree. A man whose wife refuses to talk remembers that a priest drank black cherry juice whenever he lost his voice. He cannot get the cordial but concluding that a limb of the cherry tree will have the same effect beats his wife with is. She is cured. J2412.5
- A pebble for each sin. A man cannot remember the number of his sins. The priest has him put a pebble in a sack for each of his sins. He comes to confession with three large sacks of pebbles. J2466.1
- Fool keeps repeating his instructions so as to remember them. (He usually forgets them.) J2671.2
- Fool's talking to himself thought to be inappropriate greetings. He keeps repeating a word to remember it but changes it so that it seems to refer unfavorably to people whom he meets. J2671.2.1
- Thief cannot remember whom he delivered the goods to. Though he has eaten the food trusted to him, he claims to have delivered it, but cannot remember the person who opened the door. K419.1
- The cadaver arm. Medical students (or student nurses or hospital employees) play trick on one of their number by suspending a cadaver arm or leg from the light cord in the person's room (sometimes the object is placed in the person's bed). Some circumstance keeps them from being on hand to observe the person's reaction; the next day they remember the joke and go to the victim's room to investigate. They have to break down the door. They find the victim sitting on the bed – her hair is snow white – and she is gnawing on the cadaver arm. N384.0.1.1
- Rains withheld until king remembers to have monks' huts roofed as promised. (Cf. Q266.) Q553.7
- "He struck him such a blow that he remembered the milk he drank on the sixth day after he was born." Z61.4