92 motifs match “oath”  ·  back to the chapters

• God of oaths. A484
• Goddess of oaths. A484.1
• Oath of friendship between cat and rat. A2493.9.1
• Animal makes religious oath. B251.7
• Attitudes of animals toward oath. B279.2
• Fly helps loathly suitor pass suitor test. B587.2
• Oath: "May the devil take me if.". Devil does. C12.2
• Oath: "May the devil whet my scythe." Devil leaves only the handle. C12.3
• Tabu: false and profane swearing of oath. C94.2
• Loathly Lady. Man disenchants loathsome woman by embracing her. D732
• Loathly bridegroom. Woman disenchants loathsome man by embracing him. D733
• Loathly husband a god in disguise. D733.3
• Magic oath. D1273.5
• Magic oath stops killer and sends invading army back. D1400.1.11.1
• Hero as giant's (ogre's) goatherd. G462.1
• Oaths (abusive speeches) drive ogres away. G571
• Princess appears before crane (who had demanded her in marriage) and is recognized by him despite loathly disguise. H188
• Bocca della Verità. Person swearing oath places hand in mouth of image. If oath is false the hand is bitten off. H251.1
• Oath of truth before magic lion. If oath is false perjurer is dismembered. H251.1.1
• Stone on which saint was born pours forth water when perjury is committed under it. "But if (the) oath be true, the stone remains in its proper nature." H251.2.3
• Oath taken before image. If oath is false the image turns around (or changes color). H251.3.5
• If oath is false, fruit will fall. (Cf. H251.3.10.) H252.3
• Oath taken on boy's head: boy to die if false. H252.4
• Oaths before gods as test of truth. H253
• Chastity ordeal: oath on boiling oil. H412.4.2
• Father's counsel: on wishing to drink wine go to the vat and drink it. (Stench in vat so great that desire for wine is turned to loathing.) H588.4
• Loathly deed performed as evidence of Christian virtue. H1573.1.2
• An oath to break oaths. Village called on to join in war deliberates in meeting. A man says, "We have taken oaths not to go to war. We must now take an oath to break all the oaths we have taken." J1458
• Unjust oath countered by another. A woman entrusts three coins to a headsman. He denies her claim which she fails to substantiate in ordeal. She now claims more and happens to succeed with ordeal. J1521.4
• Husband takes back faithless wife on her oath to be faithful. J2301.1
• Escape by equivocal oath. (Cf. K475.) K550.1
• The oath on the iron. The trickster takes an oath by touching iron (a trap). The dupe imitates but hits the iron so hard that he gets caught. K1115
• The wife's equivocal oath. A husband insists that his wife take oath that she has been intimate with no one but himself. The paramour masks as ass-driver. She hires an ass from him, falls down, and lets him pick her up. She then swears that no one has touched her except her husband and the ass-driver. K1513
• Impostor forces oath of secrecy. Hero or heroine swears not to tell of imposture. K1933
• Oath literally obeyed. K2312
• Oath literally obeyed: to tell no Christian. Woman thus sworn to secrecy talks to her unchristened child. K2312.1
• Loathly man father of supernaturally born boy. L112.1.1
• Goatherd as hero. L113.1.5
• Heroine has been goatherd. L113.2.1
• Vows and oaths. M100
• Punishment for broken oaths. M101
• Broken oaths cause of maimed people. M101.2
• Death as punishment for broken oath. M101.3
• Death caused by elements (exposure, drowning, etc.) as punishment for broken oath. M101.3.1
• Broken oath causes girl's hand to wither. (Cf. D2062.) M101.4
• Punishment for broken oath: loss of the inheritance of earth or heaven. M101.5
• Equivocal oaths. M105
• Escape from vengeance caused by broken oaths. M106
• Violators of oaths. M108
• Babylonians do not keep their oaths. M108.1
• Taking of vows and oaths. M110
• Swearing while one knows that his oath is rendered valueless. M110.1
• Oath is valid only when decreed in presence of ten. M110.2
• Oath uttered by pious when in danger of succumbing to temptation. M110.3
• Oaths taken over severed pieces of horse. Pieces are then buried. M111
• Oath taken on ring. M112
• Oath taken on arms. M113
• Oath taken on sword. M113.1
• Oath taken on sacred object. M114
• Oath on sacred book. M114.1
• Oath by Tora. M114.1.1
• Oath taken on holy stone. (Cf. M119.5.) M114.2
• Taking oath on cowdung. M114.5
• Oath by touching sacred thread. M114.6
• Only one oath binding. It must be by so and so or else it is worthless. M115
• Three-fold oath. M115.1
• Oath so heavy it dries up stream; oath so great it splits the rock in twain; oath so violent it makes the tree wither. M115.1.1
• Oath taken on hand of saint. M116
• Taking of vows and oaths – miscellaneous. M119
• Oath by River Styx. M119.1.1
• Oath by placing hand on genitals. M119.7
• Oath taken by the life of a person. M119.8
• Oath to marry daughters only into family with bridegroom for each daughter. M149.5
• Other vows and oaths. M150
• Oath not to fight relatives of king. M166.5
• Oath not to be christened until he has fought in seven battles for Jesus. M177.1.2
• Oath to abide by results of lot drawing. M187
• Oath not to mention what has been seen. M188
• A man who breaks his oath to a woman cannot be king with right. M205.3
• Sworn brethren. Friends take an oath of lasting brotherhood. P311
• Flower-friendship. Friends take oath of brotherhood by exchanging flowers. P311.2
• Blood-brotherhood. Friends take oath of brotherhood by means of mixing their blood. P312
• Reward for cleansing loathsome person. Cleansing eyelids, bathing, lousing etc. Q41.2
• Envy punished: the found purse. Three men find a purse. They are loath to pick it up, since they will have to divide. The king sees this and assigns them their proper punishments. Q302.1
• Girl's hand withers as punishment for broken oath to God. Q559.5.2
• Goatherd rescues abandoned child. R131.3.2
• Person forced to eat loathsome animal. S183.2
• Princess humiliated by father after she has married loathly bridegroom. S322.1.4
• Loathly bridegroom carried on back in basket by wife. T216
• Adulteress chooses loathly paramour. T232.2
• Princess takes on loathsome disguise to avoid unwelcome demon-lover. T327.6
• Saint's enemy, wishing to cause saint to violate his oath never to "commit folly and utter lie," induces his daughter to tempt saint. Saint perceives trick and avoids sin. T337.1