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* In "[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/swanmaiden/stories/lang.html The Nine Pea-Hens and the Golden Apples]", the hero opens the twelfth door his wife had forbidden.
* In "[[Little Red Riding Hood]]", the little girl leaves the path, which her mother had forbidden.
* In "[https://web.archive.org/web/20131027163722/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/firebird/stories/goldbird.html The Golden Bird]", the older sons disobey the fox [[Threshold Guardians|up front]], and after initial obedience, the youngest son disobeys him repeatedly.
* In "[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/crane/dancingwater.html The Dancing Water, the Singing Apple, and the Speaking Bird]", on his third quest, the older son disobeys the hermit's commands, and is turned to stone; his younger son followed; only their sister saves them.
* In "[https://web.archive.org/web/20130621050640/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/asbjornsenmoe/mastermaid.html The Mastermaid]", a prince working for a giant is forbidden to go through a door. Fortunately, he disobeys and finds the Mastermaid, who tells him how to survive.
* In [[Joseph Jacobs]]'s "[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/sevendwarfs/stories/goldtree.html Gold Tree and Silver Tree]", after Gold-Tree is enchanted into her sleep, her husband the prince remarries and forbids his second wife to go into the chamber where her coffin is. The second wife disobeys and revives Gold-Tree.
* In [[The Brothers Grimm (creator)|The Brothers Grimm]]'s "[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/136ironjohn.html Iron Hans]", the prince disobeys his father's order not to let Iron Hans free, and is kidnapped; then he disobeys Iron Hans's order not to let anything into a well, and is exiled.
* In "[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/009.htm The Blue Mountains]" and "[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/93raven.html The Raven]", the hero must stay awake to greet the heroine and fails.
* In "[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/3ourladyschild.html Our Lady's Child]", the heroine looks through a forbidden door and is punished until she confesses.
* "[https://web.archive.org/web/20140405134935/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/6faithfuljohn.html Faithful John]" is forbidden by the old king to let the prince see a portrait, but when the prince becomes king, he overrides him.
* In "[https://web.archive.org/web/20170618020621/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/goosegirl/index.html The Goose Girl]", the queen gives the princess a handkerchief with three drops of blood in it and orders her to take great care of it; the princess is careless and loses the handkerchief, which had protected her.
* "[[Tatterhood]]" forbids her family to watch while she fights witches and trolls; when her sister does, her head is turned to a calf's head. Not to mention Tatterhood's existence came about because her mother ate something she was forbidden to.
* Though it is very prevalent in fairy tales—still, there are also a multitude of fairy tales aversions, a small sample of which: "[
* Appears in the "[[Bluebeard]]". A mysterious nobleman leaves his young wife a key to a door which she ''must never open''. Of course, she does open it, and discovers the mutilated corpses of his former wives.
* In the story ''Strega Nona'', a young man named Anthony works for the kindly old titular character. She has a magic kettle that she uses to conjure pasta, and she tells him not to touch it. Naturally, he disobeys her.
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