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- Tabu: giving arms in pledge. C835.2.6
- Traveler says he must look after his net to see if it has taken fish. (He has left his lady seven years before with a pledge of faithfulness. Net has taken fish – lady has had lovers.) H586.2.2
- The good words. A man pledged to give his wife only good words hits her with a prayer book. J1541.1
- Sharing joy and sorrow. Man pledged to do so with his wife follows instructions literally. Beats her – a joy to him and a sorrow to her. J1541.1.1
- The penny baked in the wafer. A peasant always puts a bad penny into the offering. The priest has a penny baked in a wafer and gives it to the peasant at communion. The peasant, unable to swallow it, thinks that he is possessed of the devil. The priest asks whether he has ever done wrong with a penny, secures confession and a pledge of reform. J1582.1
- The foolish pawn. The woman sells cows and gets one of them back as a pledge for the unpaid purchase price. J2086
- Lover's gift regained: jewelry as gift. The lover presents the wife with a valuable piece of jewelry, which he regains by pretending to the husband that he has left it as a pledge. K1581.6
- Virgin Mary substitutes for woman whom husband has pledged to the devil. Devil flees. K1841.3
- Badgers treacherously slain in violation of pledge given by prince. K2023
- King's daughter secretly pledged to many to win their aid. K2034.1
- Love falsely pledged for wooer's benefit. K2094
- Pledge to say but a single phrase. In carrying out this agreement the men innocently confess a crime. M175
- Friends in life and death. In pursuance of the pledge, the living follows the other to the world of the dead. M253
- Son as pledge for father who has committed murder. P233.1
- Drinking mixture of blood, milk, and wine as pledge of covenant. P312.1
- Pledge with enemy to be kept. P557.2
- Maid pledged to devil dresses conspicuously. S223.0.2
- Parting lovers pledge not to marry for seven years. T61.2
- Marriage for a night to evade law. In order to have girl escape unwelcome marriage, the hero agrees to marry her and give her up the next day. He puts up a large bond as pledge to give her up. But he gets hold of the money by trickery and keeps her. T156
- Maid pledged to celibacy is given, at her prayer, a beard. T321.1