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- Forgotten fiancée. Young husband visiting his home breaks tabu and forgets his wife. Later she succeeds in reawakening his memory. (For details of the ways in which the memory is lost and regained see D2004 and D2006. D2003
- Hanged man warns youth against visiting sweetheart. Takes youth's place and receives shot meant for him. E366.2
- Dead man visiting wife deceived by wife's absurd actions – "no more absurd than ghost visiting wife". (Cf. E321.2, E474.) E432.2
- Fairies cause man to lose his senses after he steals flower while visiting them. F361.2.2
- Mortal visiting in fairyland must keep his thought on the fairies. F378.3
- Countryman visiting rich relative in the city refuses to eat dessert: "No, I am not hungry." J1742.3.1
- King must procure whatever visiting poets ask, or suffer from their satire. P19.3
- Strangers to be given precedence over man at home. Duke permits visiting duke to go through narrow path first. This sets custom. P631
- Visiting friends take everything from house of dying man. W151.2
- Stupid man tries to take honey from jug at night while visiting. Series of accidents. X431.1
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