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Motifs — first 20 of 22
- Helpful cow to be killed because of refusal to help stepdaughter. B335.7
- Refusal to eat from excessive grief. F1041.21.3
- Refusal to speak because of grief. F1041.21.3.1
- Test of friendship: the imagined refusal. Man wonders if his friend would lend him his palfrey. Decides he would refuse. Imagines that he has actually asked for the palfrey and has been refused. Cools toward his friend. The owner of the horse asks for an explanation. He agrees to lend him the horse and they are reconciled. H1558.6
- Refusal to perform part in mutual agreement. K231.1
- Refusal to make sacrifice after need is past. In distress a person promises a sacrifice to a god (saint) but disregards the promise when the danger passes. K231.3
- Refusal to return borrowed goods. K232
- Refusal to tell about the Rhine treasure, though condition demanded is fulfilled when the only one who knows where it is is killed. K239
- Escape of girl foiled by hero's refusal to take narcotic. K625.1
- Lover's gift regained: refusal to leave bed. Woman fearing exposure returns money. K1581.8
- Refusal to fight relatives. P205
- Refusal to believe that a friend has spoken ill of one. P317
- Refusal to believe that a friend will harm one. Alexander drinks cup said to have been poisoned by his friend. P317.1
- "Friendship without refusal." Friends bind themselves each to grant every desire of the other. P319.7
- Refusal to receive preferred help until series of stories has been told. P331
- Spurned suitor is offered girl by her mother. He rewards her refusal by a gift of money. Q87.1.3
- Punishment for refusal to marry after girl is pregnant. (Cf. Q263, Q451.2.1.) Q245
- Punishment for refusal to have children. (Cf. Q431.4, Q552.9, T572.) Q251
- Refusal of conjugal relations punished. Q257
- Refusal to grant request punished. (Cf. Q499.4.) Q287
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