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Motifs
- Series of creations. The present universe is the last of a succession of creations. A630
- Succession of creations and cataclysms. From the ruins of each earlier creation a new one is raised. A632
- Skillful hunter can tell from baying the succession of hounds and what quarry they pursue. F679.5.2
- Succession of helpers on quest. One helper sends to another, who sends to another, etc. (Cf. H1241.) H1235
- Testimony gradually weakened. Witness agrees to the following facts in succession: that the person relating the facts may have been in anger, that he may have misunderstood, that he may not have heard it at all. J1151.3
- Bungling fool has succession of accidents. J2661
- Plot to induce king to commit a crime. His line thus will forfeit succession. K1166
- Right of succession to the throne lost in gambling. N2.5.1
- Succession to the throne. P17
- Succession by mother-right. P17.6
- Succession will fall to line that has been wronged. P17.7
- Unknown knight. (Three days' tournament.) For three days in succession an unknown knight in different armor wins a tournament and escapes without recognition. Finally identified by tokens. R222
- Small grain-measure runs away when her husband beats her: succession of suitors. Z39.8