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- Disenchantment by repeating magic formula. D789.6
- Test: repeating incantation continuously for months. H1508.1
- Man is arrested for drunkenness; he is so drunk that trial must be postponed. When he is tried later, he is told how at the earlier trial he had kept repeating that the judge was a very wise judge. When he hears this he admits that he must have been very drunk. J1289.12
- Company to sing like leader. When his foot is caught in a wheel, they keep repeating his call for help as a song. J2417.1
- Repeating the ceremony. Fool told to repeat part of the ceremony at baptism persists absurdly in repeating every remark. J2498
- Priest's words repeated. Man sent to priest for religious service to repeat priest's words. Keeps repeating "Who are you?" "Where do you come from?" J2498.2
- 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
- "I am not alone!" Man travelling alone through the forest at night, is afraid of robbers. He hangs his cap on a stick and keeps repeating: "I am not travelling alone, there are two of us." W211.3