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Motifs
- Helpful animal killed (threatened) by ungrateful hero. B336
- Child threatened with ogre. Latter takes child off. C25.1
- "Shame and disgrace" threatened for refusing love of forthputting woman. C929.1
- When changeling is threatened with burning, child is returned. (Cf. F321.1.4.3.) F321.1.4.5
- Association of rat with cat ceases as soon as mutual danger has passed. The rat threatened by the weasel and the owl allies himself with a cat caught in a net. Saved by the cat, he rescues the cat with precaution and then prudently renounces further relations with her. J426
- Wolf waits in vain for the nurse to throw away the child. She has threatened to throw the child to the wolf. J2066.5
- Dog waits to be hit with meat. A butcher has threatened to hit him with a piece of meat. J2066.6
- Magic statue betrays a thief by indirection. He has threatened to smash the head of the magic statue if it betrays him. The statue says, "Whoever would tell the truth now is likely to have his head smashed." K428
- Shepherd threatened by tiger says he will report matter to ass: tiger flees. K547.8
- Escape from threatened captivity by pretending to send for object for captor. K551.25
- Bear frightened away by man threatening to cleave its skull with his penis. He meets a woman who, upon being told what man had threatened, shows him a vestige of the cleaving she once got. Only partly healed. K1755.1
- Prophecy: danger to threatened newborn boy at his eighteenth year. M341.1.4.2
- Faithful old dog threatened with death proves his worth and is spared. Q151.4
- Impudent suitor or his messenger hanged or threatened with hanging. Q413.5.1
- Curse threatened to enforce demand. Q556.0.1