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Motifs
- The one compulsory thing. Unless one does this one thing, misfortune comes. (Sometimes one is under magic compulsion.) C650
- Customs connected with unique compulsion. C650.1
- Compulsion: taking back talisman which opened treasure mountain. Hero takes treasure and forgets the talisman. C652
- Compulsion to bathe in certain waters daily. C663
- Compulsion to go to certain place at certain time (or once each year). C666
- Compulsion to tell stories. C672
- Compulsion to give food to everyone met on journey. C675
- Other compulsions. C680
- Compulsion to answer cry. Hero is magically compelled to do so. C681
- Compulsion to regard hunting cry and follow hounds. C681.1
- Compulsion to invite singer to feast. Until that is done, the beer will not stop foaming. (Cf. C671.) C682
- Compulsion to perform certain task yearly. C684
- Compulsion to catch blackbird alive yearly. C684.1
- Compulsion to kill one of certain hogs yearly. C684.2
- Compulsion to leap yearly over stone one's size held in palm of hand. C684.3
- Compulsion to hold festival at certain intervals. C684.4
- Magic compulsion to break wind under certain conditions. (Cf. D2063.5.) D2079.1
- Magic compulsion to make journey. D2121.15
- God under compulsion: suppliant threatens to mutilate (crush) holy image if his wish is not fulfilled. V123.1