Other vows and oaths — Mythoi

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Other vows and oaths.

Ordaining the future. · Vows and oaths. · Other vows and oaths. · view the constellation · filed as M150

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Greek Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica , IV. TO HERMES
Finnish The Kalevala , Rune XI
Japanese / Shinto Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan , Book 25
Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 4
Literary Crystallization Four Plays (The Tempest, A Midsummer-Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, King Lear) — University Press Shakespeare, ed. Sidney Lee , A Midsummer-Night's Dream Act 3

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27 finer motifs beneath it

Vow not to eat before hearing of adventure Vow not to go to bed with wife till enemy is killed Vow to perform act of prowess Vow to watch at frightful place all night Vow to ride the forest all night and slay all comers Vow never to refuse food to any man Vow never to flee in fear of death Vow not to be killed by a single opponent Vow never to make a nocturnal assault Bard vows that none of his profession will make a request of any man Vow to ask nobody for peace, grace. (Cf. M161.4.) Other vows about fighting Vow to serve only the most generous of all kings Vow not to devastate country or take revenge after release Vow never to accept a man who does not know any sport Vow not to touch certain thing Pledge to say but a single phrase. In carrying out this agreement the men innocently confess a crime Vow to change religion Vow not to enter any house before reaching one's own Religious vows. (Cf. M177.) Vow if queen bears another girl she and child will both be killed Vow to abide by laws Vow never to pass over demarcation line into other's property Oath to abide by results of lot drawing +3 more

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