Breaking of bargains or promises

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Breaking of bargains or promises.

Ordaining the future. · Bargains and promises. · Bargains and promises. · view the constellation · filed as M205

Scholars’ trail — 2references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

IndiaThompson-Balys
West IndiesFlowers 561.

Within the index

Filed under Bargains and promises.

5 finer motifs beneath it

Promise kept in deed but not in spirit Animal punishes broken promise Curse as punishment for broken promise A man who breaks his oath to a woman cannot be king with right King breaks promise to care for man's family. Is caught trying to steal his money

Filed beside it

Making of bargains and promises Fulfilling of bargain or promise King's promise irrevocable Demanding of promised boon postponed Promise made merely as a matter of form not binding Land grants (bargains)Price set on one's head

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