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Motifs
- Why good-looking but soft, useless women attract men. A1373.1
- Magic object effective when struck on ground once only. Second blow renders useless. D806.1
- Magic object renders weapon useless. D1414
- Magic object makes fortifications useless. D1414.0.1
- Magic garment makes weapons useless. (Cf. D1052.) D1414.5
- Immortality useless without eternal youth. D1850.1
- Curse makes stones useless. D2089.2
- Child confined to keep him in ignorance of life. Useless. J147
- Pomegranate and apple tree dispute as to which is worth most. Blackberry reproves them for useless jangling. J466.1
- Baldheaded man finds the comb: it is useless. J1061.2
- Washing test: defendants given basin of water. Guilty one wastes it uselessly. J1149.11
- Man refuses to lend horse: sued for consequent damages. The would-be borrower gets one from another neighbor. He overworks the horse and renders him useless. The owner of the horse sues the man who had refused to lend his animal. Reasoning: "If he had lent his horse this would not have happened to mine." Settled by compromise. J1552.3
- Useless surgical operation from misunderstanding. J1842
- Good timber given for useless because wife says they will have only sickness and trouble. J2093.4
- Raven steals the robes of Red Willow Men and finds them useless. J2194
- Useless trip to find a name the wife already knew. Fool goes to astrologer for child's name, but forgets it on way home. Later wife happens to use the word and reminds him. But he cannot see the use of the trip when she already knew this word. J2241.1
- Deceptive exchange: useless for magic object. K140.1
- Hind, like his mother, flees before the hounds. Useless for her to urge him to stand up against them. U121.2
- Since salvation is predestined, asceticism deemed useless. V462.0.2
- Foolish doctor performs useless operation. X372.4