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Motifs
- Long-suffering God. A139.12
- Markings on animals as recollections of Christ's life and sufferings. (Cf. A2412.) A2221.3
- Marvelous sensitiveness: suffering from merely seeing work done. F647.2
- Choice: suffering in youth or old age. J214
- Wolf tries in vain to be doctor. Only increases patient's suffering. J512.5
- The man who wanted to be dead one day. A husband tells his wife that he has provisions for every day in the year but one. He proposes to play dead for that one day, thinking that the servants will be overcome with grief and cannot eat. After brief mourning, however, they eat more than usual. The man then thinks to frighten them by rising from the dead. One servant thinking the dead man suffering from devils kills him. J2188
- Reward for long-suffering nun: made abbess of convent. Q87.3
- Christ, not having married, knew nothing about suffering. So thinks the man after hearing all about Christ's torments. T251.0.2
- Suffering healed by time. U262
- Ascetic faster increases his sufferings by placing food and drink before himself. V462.2.1