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== Fairy Tales ==
* In ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20171112142905/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/jacobs/english/fishring.html The Fish and the Ring]'', ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130326131857/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/russian/russianwondertales/vasiliiunlucky.html Vasilii the Unlucky]'', [[The Brothers Grimm (creator)|Grimms']] ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131217180139/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/29devilgoldhairs.html The Devil With the Three Golden Hairs]'', ''[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/260.htm The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate]'', and many other fairy tales, a man who discovers finds his child [[Self Fulfilling Prophecies|doomed]] to marry a poor child tries to kill them with many tasks, before and after the wedding; in the end, he fails.
* In ''[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/065.htm Jesper Who Herded the Hares]'' the king invented more tasks for Jesper to avoid fulfilling his promise to marry him to his daughter, stopping only when Jesper has some dirt on him.
* In ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130527143315/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/asbjornsenmoe/dapplegrim.html Dapplegrim]'', the king orders the hero to perform many tasks because his fellow servants [[Malicious Slander|falsely claimed he said he could do them]], and then in an attempt to keep him from marrying the princess; in the end, he gives in.
* In [[The Brothers Grimm (creator)|Grimms']] ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20140504020136/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/126ferdinandfaithful.html Ferdinand the Faithful]'', after being slandered, Ferdinand must get a bride for the king and then all the things she demands before she will marry him. However, in the end, the bride tricks the king into letting her kill him, and then marries Ferdinand.
* In ''[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/038.htm The Grateful Beasts]'', the king orders Ferko to perform three tasks at the incitement of his brothers; his own daughter the princess argues with him until he imprisons her in a tower. However, the last task is to summon all the wolves in the kingdom, [[Beware the Nice Ones|the wolves then proceed to kill all the court]], and Ferko frees the princess, marries her, and becomes king.
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