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Motifs — first 20 of 41
- Devil's unsuccessful attempt to vivify his creations as God has done. Succeeds only in making animal. A1217
- Man created after series of unsuccessful experiments. A1226
- Origin of death from bad creator's unsuccessful imitation. The bad creator attempts in vain to endow his creations with life like the good creator. Fails and thus introduces death. A1335.2
- Devil's unsuccessful creation produces certain animals. (Cf. A1811, A1833.1, A1862, A1893.) A1755
- Devil produces animals only in God's name. He tries unsuccessfully without using God's name. A1756
- Creation of monkeys: old woman thrown into fire. In unsuccessful imitation of Christ, the smith throws an old woman into the fire. She becomes a monkey. (Cf. A1710.) A1861.2
- Two animals learn songs together – one successfully, the other unsuccessfully. (Cf. A2425.) A2283
- Unsuccessful attempt by enemy to kill helpful animal. B335.3
- Clerics' voyage unsuccessful because they sailed in boats of skin. C841.0.1
- Unsuccessful attempt to steal fairy necklace. F357
- Heads placed on stakes for failure in performance of task. Unsuccessful youths are beheaded and heads exposed. Hero sees them when he sets out to accomplish his task. H901.1
- Unsuccessful marriage of jackals and turtles (different abits). J414.3
- Barber tries unsuccessfully to become a trader. J513.2
- Unsuccessful fishermen console themselves that their earlier high hopes balance up their disappointment. J866.1
- Testimony of unsuccessful suitor discredited. Adulteress is surprised in intrigue by unsuccessful suitor. He threatens to tell her husband. She tells her husband that the scorned suitor has accused her falsely of indiscretion with many men. When the suitor tells the husband he does not believe him. J1151.4
- Imitation of magic rejuvenation unsuccessful. (Cf. J2401.) J2411.1
- Unsuccessful imitation of a god: lions fall out of the furnace instead of men covered with gold and silver. J2411.1.2
- Imitation of miraculous horse-shoeing unsuccessful. Christ takes off a horse's foot to shoe it and then successfully replaces it. (Cf. J2401.) J2411.2
- Unsuccessful imitation of magic production of food. (Cf. J2425.) J2411.3
- Imitation of magician unsuccessful. Person does self injury. J2411.4