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Motifs
- Witch overcome by threatening with sword. G275.15.1
- Feigned madness unmasked by threatening man's child. J1149.1
- Execution escaped by threatening with malediction. J1189.2
- Numskull thinks boiling pot is threatening him: breaks pot. J1813.10
- Sons of thief frightened by threatening to bring the three strongest men to punish them. K335.1.11
- Threatening tiger challenged to strength contest. Beguiled into holding wood for plow and is injured. K547.9
- Weak animal shows strong his own reflection and frightens him. Tells him that this animal is threatening to kill him. (Usually hare and lion.) K1715.1
- 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
- Goat singing a threatening song bought off with food and jewels. K1767
- When he is looked at too threateningly hero feigns failing ability to go on horseback. K1777
- Sham physician cures people by threatening them with death. K1955.1
- Devil frightened by threatening to bring mother-in-law. K2325
- Tabu: fear of threatening animals while treasure is being raised. N553.5