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Motifs
- Dishonor to children because of breaking tabu. C930.1
- Magic hymn protects against poverty, death and dishonor. (Cf. D1275.3, D1380.14.1.) D1389.9
- Fairies take revenge for being dishonored. F361.9
- Death preferred to dishonor. J227.2
- King honors poet and critic: the first so that he will honor the king; the second, so that he will not dishonor him. J811.3
- Lucretia seduced through threat. Sextus says he will kill her and leave a naked slave in her bed to bring dishonor on her house. She yields. K1397
- Refusal to fight wounded enemy. Hero feels it dishonorable to fight with sorely wounded enemy, because it would be said he died of previous wounds rather than the ones hero might inflict. W215.2