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- Troubles escape when forbidden casket is opened. See references to C321 (Tabu: looking into box). C915.1
- Troublesome bonga (fairy) pegged to ground and placed under stone. F386.3
- Playful or troublesome fairies. F399.4
- Dwarfs seek human help in their fights and troubles. F451.5.23
- Malicious or troublesome actions of brownies. F482.5.5
- Choice: small injustice permitted rather than to cause troubles of state. J221
- King overlooks wife's unfaithfulness rather than to cause troubles of state. J221.1
- King chooses small inconvenience of personal troubles to great troubles for his kingdom. He suffers to help realm. J221.2
- Distress over imagined troubles of unborn child. (Clever Else.) Girl sent to cellar to get wine to serve the suitor begins weeping over the troubles of the child which she might have if she married the suitor. Her parents join her. Meanwhile the suitor leaves. J2063
- Peasant as priest preaches on the troubles of laymen. K1961.1.1
- Prophecy: eternal peace in an early death or long troublesome life. (Cf. M369.7.) M365
- Train of troubles from lost horseshoe nail. Master tries to go on in spite of the loss. N258
- Train of troubles from sparrow's vengeance. A man runs over the dog, friend of the sparrow. Through the sparrow's vengeance the man loses his horse, his property, and finally his life. N261
- Train of troubles for seven brothers for having destroyed bird's nest. N261.1
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