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Motifs
- Bread baked with onions for an undesirable guest. J1563.3
- The abbot cannot find his needle. An undesirable abbot furnishes adequate grounds for his dismissal when he cannot find the needle that all monks are supposed to carry with them. If careless in little things he will be careless in great. J1651
- "Let me catch you better game." Captured animal pretends to help captor bring more desirable victim. Escapes. K553.1
- Girl puts off consummation of marriage to undesirable suitor by saying her "stomach is sick". K1227.5.1
- Cruel fathers threaten to kill their children if they are of undesirable sex. S11.4.3
- Undesirable children exposed, desirable preserved. S311
- Humor concerning sex. [Note: Thousands of obscene motifs in which there is no point except the obscenity itself might logically come at this point, but they are entirely beyond the scope of the present work. They form a literature to themselves, with its own periodicals and collections. In view of the possibility that it might become desirable to classify these motifs and place them within the present index, space has been left from X700 to X749 for such motifs.] X700