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Motifs
- Plain of wonders. F756.3
- Forest of Dangers (Wonders). F812.3
- Wonders occur on Hallowe'en. F900.1.1
- Quest to Plain of Wonders. H1288
- Test of friendship: the imagined refusal. Man wonders if his friend would lend him his palfrey. Decides he would refuse. Imagines that he has actually asked for the palfrey and has been refused. Cools toward his friend. The owner of the horse asks for an explanation. He agrees to lend him the horse and they are reconciled. H1558.6
- Bishop and prince. Peasant tells bishop, who rides by with forty horses, that he wonders if St. Kilian at Würzburg is also riding with forty horses. Bishop excuses extravagance by saying that he is also a prince and that it is the prince, not the bishop, who is using the horses. "If the prince should become a fool, what would the bishop do then?" J1289.2
- The fool is told that his son has given up the ghost. He wonders. He didn't know that the son had a ghost to give up. J2482
- Butcher wonders that man who has been buying his meat for seven years can still be alive. X231
- Foreigner wonders why city with so many judges has not been destroyed. X332
- (Nine) wonders of Ireland. Z71.6.3