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Motifs
- Overweening pride in good fortune forbidden. Man proud that he and his clan have never known unhappiness or want swallowed up by earth. C770.1
- Foreknowledge of unhappiness of son or sons. D1812.0.4
- Man to be reforged chooses present unhappiness. He is in heaven and God is to reforge him, but he chooses not to change. J323
- Man who has never known unhappiness or want is swallowed up by earth with all his household. L424