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Motifs
- Tabu: coming suddenly on supernatural creatures. C52.2
- White chasuble suddenly turned into red. D454.3.1.1
- Color of hair suddenly changed. D492.3
- Thieves cannot cross a river because the water suddenly becomes too hot for them. D1389.2.2
- Withered and dead trees suddenly blossom at saint's command. D2157.3
- Ghost rides in carriage, disappears suddenly at certain spot. E332.3.2
- Cultivated places suddenly become desert. F969.5
- Man suddenly acquires long gray beard on scaffold at execution. F1044
- "Don't be too greedy in making a trade": counsel proved wise by experience. Man refuses fifty ducats for horse. Horse suddenly dies. J21.26
- Man leads pursuers to edge of thin ice, swerves suddenly; they fall through the ice. K893.1
- Abbess puts priest's trousers on her head. Suddenly called up while abed with the priest, she thinks to put on her coif. Discomfited by nuns whom she has denounced for incontinence. K1273
- Sham threat of war holds ships back so that there suddenly are enough men to man defending ship. K1771.7
- Magic manifestation: blood flows suddenly from mouth of blasphemer. (Cf. Q221.3.) Q551.6.5.1
- Heretic suddenly becomes tongue-tied. Q551.7.1.1
- Milk suddenly appears in woman's dry breast. T592