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Motifs
- Tabu: boasting of supernatural wife. C31.5
- Tabu: boasting. C450
- Tabu: boasting of wealth. C451
- Tabu: boasting of children (Niobe). C452
- Tabu: boasting of love-conquest. C453
- Tabu: boasting that one has no need of gods' help. C454
- Tabu: boasting of fearlessness. C455
- Tasks assigned because of mother's foolish boasting. The mother foolishly boasts to the king that the daughter can perform an impossible task (often spinning). H914
- Fox overawes lion cubs by his boasting and eats their food. K1715.14
- Trickster's boasting scares his powerful opponent from contest. K1766
- False boasting of having killed his foster-brother makes his men follow the boaster. K1766.1
- Boasting coward exposed by wife who masks as highwayman and robs him. K1837.1
- Sham-warrior intimidates soldiers with his boasting. K1951.3
- Tiger intimidated by boasting of the sham-warrior. K1951.3.2
- Boasting king insulted by crow dropping filth on him. L410.3
- Woman casts ring into sea boasting that it is as impossible for her to become poor as for the ring to be found. Ring is found in fish: she becomes poor. L412.1
- Custom: boasting of sexual prowess. P665
- Father wants to kill son because of foolish boasting. S327.1