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Motifs
- Tabu: going out at night by oneself. C755.8
- Tabu: using fairy bath water, soap, or ointment on oneself while bathing fairy child. (Cf. F235.4.) F378.6
- Defeating or ridding oneself of fairies. F380
- Impossible to rid oneself of cobold. (Cf. F482.3.1.) F481.3
- Bride test: to allow oneself to be beaten with shoe. H386.1
- Task: defending oneself alone against fifteen ships, sixty men. (Cf. H915.1.) H1199.8
- Quest for bride for oneself. H1381.3.1.2
- Counting wrong by not counting oneself. Numskulls conclude that one of their number is drowned. J2031
- Selling oneself and escaping. K252
- Escape by reporting oneself invulnerable and overawing captor. K541
- Deception into allowing oneself to be fettered. K713
- Deception into allowing oneself to be tied. K713.1
- Deception into allowing oneself to be hanged. ("Show me how!") Executioner must show the hero how to use the gallows. The hero hangs the executioner. K715
- Vow rather to be cut in pieces than permit oneself to be bound. M166.2
- Curse by oneself. The person in despair curses himself to sink with palace into the earth. M411.0.1
- Adventures from trying to strangle oneself in tree. N776.2
- Penance: killing oneself with wooden knife. Q522.2
- Misfortune with oneself to blame the hardest. U160