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T1. Zeus gives man modesty, but it leaves when love enters.
T2. The relative pleasures of love. ---- Do men or women have the greater pleasure in sexual intercourse? Man who has been transformed to woman answers that women have the greater pleasure. The goddess blinds him as punishment.
T2. The relative pleasures of love. ---- Do men or women have the greater pleasure in sexual intercourse? Man who has been transformed to woman answers that women have the greater pleasure. The goddess blinds him as punishment.
T3. Omens in love affairs.
T3.1. Blue fortunate in love matters.
T3.1. Blue fortunate in love matters.
T4. Person wants to learn art of love.
T4.1. Herdsman to learn art of love so he can become a holy man.
T6. Love as inducement to idolatry.
T8. Sexual desire as original sin.
T10. Falling in love.
T10. Falling in love.
T10. Falling in love.
T10.1. Sluggish prince reformed by falling in love.
T10.1.1. Gambler reformed by falling in love.
T10.1.2. Love transforms crude individual into a polished courtier.
T10.2. Angel of love compels man to fall in love.
T10.3. Girl continually falling in love.
T11. Falling in love with person never seen.
T11.1. Love from mere mention or description. *Type 516.
T11.1.1. Beauty of woman reported to king causes quest for her as his bride.
T11.1.1. Beauty of woman reported to king causes quest for her as his bride.
T11.2. Love through sight of picture. *Types 403, 516, 900.
T11.2. Love through sight of picture. *Types 403, 516, 900.
T11.2. Love through sight of picture. *Types 403, 516, 900.
T11.2. Love through sight of picture. *Types 403, 516, 900.
T11.2.0.1. Ugly picture of suitor makes girl refuse him.
T11.2.1. Love through sight of statue. *Type 516.
T11.2.1.1. Youth makes statue of girl and seeks a girl like the statue.
T11.3. Love through dream. ---- Falling in love with a person seen in a dream. *Type 516.
T11.3. Love through dream. ---- Falling in love with a person seen in a dream. *Type 516.
T11.3. Love through dream. ---- Falling in love with a person seen in a dream. *Type 516.
T11.3.1. Lovers meet in their dreams.
T11.3.2. Dream about a marriage with another's wife.
T11.4. Love through sight of something belonging to unknown princess.
T11.4.1. Love through sight of hair of unknown princess.
T11.4.1. Love through sight of hair of unknown princess.
T11.4.1. Love through sight of hair of unknown princess.
T11.4.1.1. Love through sight of hair of unknown hero.
T11.4.2. Love through sight of slipper of unknown princess.
T11.4.3. Love through finding lady's wreath.
T11.4.3.1. Love through seeing bouquet.
T11.4.4. Love through seeing marks of lady's teeth in fruit which she has bitten.
T11.4.5. Love through finding lady's handkerchief.
T11.4.5. Love through finding lady's handkerchief.
T11.4.6. Love through finding lady's ornament (ring, comb, etc.).
T11.4.7. Falling in love at receipt of girl's amulet.
T11.5. Falling in love with reflection in water.
T11.5.1. Falling in love with one's own reflection in water. ---- (Narcissus.)
T11.6. Wish for wife red as blood, white as snow, black as raven.
T11.7. Love through sight in magic mirror. (Cf. D1163.)
T11.8. Falling in love with beautiful voice.
T12. Love through prophecy that prince shall marry the fairest. *Type 516.
T13. Woman falls in love as result of husband's praise of her suitor.
T15. Love at first sight.
T15.1. Princess so lovely that everyone falls in love with her.
T16. Man falls in love with woman he sees bathing.
T16. Man falls in love with woman he sees bathing.
T16. Man falls in love with woman he sees bathing.
T16.0.1. Woman falls in love with man she sees bathing.
T16.0.2. Bathing woman sees hero and falls in love with him.
T16.1. Man falls in love by the sight of woman's white arms.
T16.2. Man falls in love on seeing dead body of beautiful girl. (Cf. T466.)
T21. Mutual love through accidental drinking of love philtre.
T21. Mutual love through accidental drinking of love philtre.
T21. Mutual love through accidental drinking of love philtre.
T21. Mutual love through accidental drinking of love philtre.
T22. Predestined lover. ---- Future wife or husband assigned by destiny. (Cf. T54.)
T22.1. Lovers mated before birth. ---- Fate compels their union as soon as they meet.
T22.2. Predestined wife. (Cf. M312.1.)
T22.3. Predestined husband.
T22.4. Lovers fated to marry each other born at same time; ---- identical prophecies for both. (Cf. T61.5.)
T24. They symptoms of love.
T24.1. Love-sickness.
T24.1. Love-sickness.
T24.1. Love-sickness.
T24.1.1. Night emissions from lusting after certain woman bring man near death.
T24.2. Swooning for love. *Type 516.
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T24.2.2. Swooning for fright that lover shall be killed.
T24.2.3. Fainting away from seeing an extraordinary beauty.
T24.3. Madness from love.
T24.4. Woman takes on lover's deformity (while conversing with him).
T24.5. Boy turns red and white from love.
T24.6. Lover refuses food and drink.
T24.7. Waiting for twenty-two years to see a beauty.
T24.8. Man promises to sacrifice self in order to marry beloved.
T25. Miraculous healing from a passionate love.
T26. Attention distracted by sight of beloved.
T26.1. Finger cut because of absorption in the charms of beloved. ---- The person cutting food cannot take his eyes off the man (woman) opposite him.
T26.1. Finger cut because of absorption in the charms of beloved. ---- The person cutting food cannot take his eyes off the man (woman) opposite him.
T26.1. Finger cut because of absorption in the charms of beloved. ---- The person cutting food cannot take his eyes off the man (woman) opposite him.
T27. Unusual success in love.
T27.1. Thirty young girls fall in love with a young man.
T27.2. Seventy princesses in love with hero. ---- He loves only the youngest one.
T27.3. Hundred rajas fall in love with one woman.
T28. Princess falls in love with a man disguised as a woman.
T29. Falling in love -- miscellaneous.
T29.1. Boy and girl fall in love when curtain is pulled aside.
T30. Lovers' meeting.
T30. Lovers' meeting.
T30. Lovers' meeting.
T30. Lovers' meeting.
T30. Lovers' meeting.
T31. Lovers' meeting: hero in service of heroine. ---- As page, or the like.
T31.1. Lovers' meeting: hero in service of lady's father. *Type 314.
T32. Lovers' meeting: heroine heals hero's wounds. (Cf. T67.2.)
T32.1. Lovers' meeting: hero in heroine's father's prison from which she helps him to escape.
T32.1. Lovers' meeting: hero in heroine's father's prison from which she helps him to escape.
T33. Man transformed to animal kept as pet by heroine. (Cf. D658.)
T34. Lovers meet at social gathering.
T34.1. Sudden love as woman pours drink for man at festival.
T34.2. Falling in love while playing game.
T34.2.1. Falling in love while playing draughts.
T35. Lovers' rendezvous. (Cf. R315.1.)
T35.0.1. Lover late at rendezvous; detained by incessant talker.
T35.0.1. Lover late at rendezvous; detained by incessant talker.
T35.0.1. Lover late at rendezvous; detained by incessant talker.
T35.0.2. Magic sleep causes lover to miss appointment with mistress.
T35.1. Fountain (well) as lovers' rendezvous.
T35.2. Pavilion as lovers' rendezvous.
T35.3. Girl intoxicates nurse to keep rendezvous with lover.
T35.4. Hesitation in making up mind spoils lovers' rendezvous. (Cf. J2166.)
T35.5. Lover goes to see his beloved in her husband's (or her father's) house, defiant of the danger.
T36. Girl sleeps in garden to meet lover. ---- Discovered next morning and married.
T37. Lover finds lady in tomb apparently dead. ---- She revives and marries him.
T37. Lover finds lady in tomb apparently dead. ---- She revives and marries him.
T37. Lover finds lady in tomb apparently dead. ---- She revives and marries him.
T37.0.1. "Poisoned" woman revives. ---- Husband tries to poison wife. Student substitutes sleeping potion for poison, takes her from the tomb. When she revives he claims her as his own.
T37.1. Despairing lover at lady's tomb takes poison. ---- She revives to learn of his fatal error and shares his fate. (Romeo and Juliet.)
T41. Communication of lovers.
T41.1. Communication of lovers through hole in wall.
T41.2. Communication of lovers through hole in floor.
T41.3. Lovers' signal. ---- Informs lover when he must come.
T42. Conversation of lovers.
T42.1. Unacquainted lovers converse in sign language.
T42.2. Lovers converse in figures of speech not understood by others.
T45. Lover buys admission to woman's room. *Type 900.
T45. Lover buys admission to woman's room. *Type 900.
T45. Lover buys admission to woman's room. *Type 900.
T45. Lover buys admission to woman's room. *Type 900.
T45. Lover buys admission to woman's room. *Type 900.
T46. Suitor outwits watchman to meet lady.
T46.1. To reach beauty young man climbs eight fences watched by one hundred guards.
T47. Heroine hidden by stepmother when suitor comes.
T50. Wooing.
T50. Wooing.
T50. Wooing.
T50. Wooing.
T50. Wooing.
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T50. Wooing.
T50. Wooing.
T50. Wooing.
T50. Wooing.
T50. Wooing.
T50. Wooing.
T50.1. Girl carefully guarded from suitors.
T50.1.1. Girl carefully guarded by mother. (Cf. K1349.4.)
T50.1.2. Girl carefully guarded by father.
T50.1.3. Girl carefully guarded from suitors by hag.
T50.1.4. Cat and dog as guards of imprisoned beauty. (Cf. B576.1.)
T50.2. King likes his daughter so much that he does not wish to marry her to anyone.
T50.2.1. King unwilling to marry his daughter to a man not her equal.
T50.3. Mythical being asks for girl in marriage. (Cf. T111.)
T51. Wooing by emissary.
T51. Wooing by emissary.
T51.1. Wooing emissary wins lady's love for himself.
T51.1. Wooing emissary wins lady's love for himself.
T51.1. Wooing emissary wins lady's love for himself.
T51.1. Wooing emissary wins lady's love for himself.
T51.1.1. Wooing emissary admitted to woman's room. ---- Elopes with her. (Cf. K1349.1.5.)
T51.2. King wooes through his daughter and the princess's maiden.
T51.3. Match arranged by means of pictures of both parties.
T51.3.1. Messengers seek wife for hero to resemble image they carry with them.
T52. Bride purchased. *Type 890.
T52. Bride purchased. *Type 890.
T52. Bride purchased. *Type 890.
T52. Bride purchased. *Type 890.
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T52.2. Purchase money instead of bride given to suitor to settle dispute.
T52.3. Bride purchased for her weight in gold.
T52.4. Dowry given at marriage of daughter.
T52.4.1. Amount of dowry fixed by custom in bride's family.
T52.5. Attempt to purchase wife.
T52.6. Rich girl gives poor suitor necklace with which to pay her bride-price.
T52.7. Princess asked for in return for sparing palace. (Cf. S222.)
T52.8. Absent man's wife demanded in law court in payment of debt by creditor.
T52.9. Village given to bride-to-be as part of her dowry.
T53. Matchmakers.
T53.0.1. Matchmakers arrange weddings.
T53.1. Incognito prophet as matchmaker.
T53.1. Incognito prophet as matchmaker.
T53.2. Christ as matchmaker. *Type 822. See references for T125.
T53.3. Saint as matchmaker.
T53.4. God occupied with matchmaking.
T53.5. Barber as matchmaker.
T54. Choosing bride by horoscope. (Cf. B152.2, M302.4, T22.)
T55. Girl as wooer. ---- Forthputting woman.
T55. Girl as wooer. ---- Forthputting woman.
T55. Girl as wooer. ---- Forthputting woman.
T55. Girl as wooer. ---- Forthputting woman.
T55. Girl as wooer. ---- Forthputting woman.
T55. Girl as wooer. ---- Forthputting woman.
T55. Girl as wooer. ---- Forthputting woman.
T55. Girl as wooer. ---- Forthputting woman.
T55. Girl as wooer. ---- Forthputting woman.
T55. Girl as wooer. ---- Forthputting woman.
T55.1. Princess declares her love for lowly hero. *Type 314.
T55.1. Princess declares her love for lowly hero. *Type 314.
T55.1. Princess declares her love for lowly hero. *Type 314.
T55.1.1. Princess declares love for courtier.
T55.2. Servant-girl helps prince if he will make her chief wife.
T55.3. Lady in love with ruler enlists friend's aid. ---- Rendezvous arranged.
T55.4. Little girl will give prince marvelous objects if he promises to marry her later.
T55.4.1. Gift made by bride to husband.
T55.5. Princess feigns sickness to woo hero. ---- Only marriage to him will cure her.
T55.5. Princess feigns sickness to woo hero. ---- Only marriage to him will cure her.
T55.6. Person (man, woman) exhibits figure.
T55.6. Person (man, woman) exhibits figure.
T55.6. Person (man, woman) exhibits figure.
T55.6. Person (man, woman) exhibits figure.
T55.6. Person (man, woman) exhibits figure.
T55.6.1. Maidens (women) request hero to exhibit figure.
T55.7. Princess elects herself husband from the young men present. (Cf. H311, H362, T131.0.1. Type 530.)
T55.8. Princess declares love by presenting cup of drink at feast.
T55.9. Harper as love messenger sent by girl.
T55.10. Princess offers reward for securing prince as husband for her.
T55.11. Princess transforms self to woo. (Cf. D658.)
T56. Means of attracting sweetheart.
T56. Means of attracting sweetheart.
T56.1. Bride attracted by music.
T56.1.1. Bride attracted by flute.
T56.2. Image of God of Love sent to fetch bride. (Cf. A475.)
T56.3. Forgotten fiancée sends lover false diamond inscribed with Christ's last words: ---- "Oh Lord why hast Thou forsaken me?" Lover returns. (Cf. D2003.)
T56.4. Beautiful woman enticed by wonderful flower.
T57. Declaration of love.
T57.1. Lover declares himself by showing her own reflection to his beloved. (Cf. T91.6.1.1.)
T58. Wooing the strong and beautiful bride. *Type 519.
T58. Wooing the strong and beautiful bride. *Type 519.
T61. Betrothal.
T61. Betrothal.
T61. Betrothal.
T61. Betrothal.
T61.1. Betrothal by lovers' drinking each other's blood.
T61.1. Betrothal by lovers' drinking each other's blood.
T61.1. Betrothal by lovers' drinking each other's blood.
T61.2. Parting lovers pledge not to marry for seven years.
T61.3. At betrothal maid makes shirt for her lover.
T61.4. Betrothal ceremony.
T61.4.1. Liquor brewed for betrothal.
T61.4.2. At betrothal ceremony both parties drink out of the loving-cup.
T61.4.3. Engagement ritual: intermediary sprinkles girl with flour.
T61.4.4. Token of betrothal sent to parents of a proposed bridegroom; ---- acceptance means agreement to proposed match.
T61.4.5. Betrothal by gold ring.
T61.4.5.1. Dying lover sends his sweetheart his ring. (Cf. T81.)
T61.5. Children born on same night betrothed. (Cf. B311, T22.4.)
T61.5.1. Betrothal of hero to princess while both are still in cradle.
T61.5.2. Children ten and twelve years old betroth themselves.
T61.5.3. Unborn children promised in marriage to each other.
T62. Princess to marry first man who asks for her. *Type 900.
T62. Princess to marry first man who asks for her. *Type 900.
T62. Princess to marry first man who asks for her. *Type 900.
T62. Princess to marry first man who asks for her. *Type 900.
T62. Princess to marry first man who asks for her. *Type 900.
T62. Princess to marry first man who asks for her. *Type 900.
T62. Princess to marry first man who asks for her. *Type 900.
T62.1. Man to marry first woman who gives him alms.
T62.2. Minister's daughter to marry first bachelor who arrives.
T63. Princess's husband selected by elephant bowing to him. (Cf. H171.1.)
T64. King seeks bride only because counsellors insist.
T65. Betrothal restrictions.
T65.1. Maiden will not give her troth to two brothers successively.
T65.1.1. Girl formally betrothed can never marry another should anything happen to prevent her from marrying the first.
T65.2. Mercenary soldier (exile) unsuitable as husband.
T66. Help in wooing. (Cf. B582.)
T66.1. Grateful dead man helps hero win princess. *Type 506.
T66.2. Grateful little boys help hero win girl.
T67. Prince offered as prize.
T67.1. Marriage to prince as reward for disenchanting him. (Cf. L162.)
T67.2. Marriage to prince as reward for curing him.
T67.2. Marriage to prince as reward for curing him.
T67.3. Prince will marry girl who will rescue him from embarrassing position.
T67.3.1. King marries girl who frees him from the clutches of magic doll. (Cf. D1268.)
T68. Princess offered as prize.
T68. Princess offered as prize.
T68. Princess offered as prize.
T68. Princess offered as prize.
T68. Princess offered as prize.
T68. Princess offered as prize.
T68. Princess offered as prize.
T68. Princess offered as prize.
T68. Princess offered as prize.
T68. Princess offered as prize.
T68. Princess offered as prize.
T68. Princess offered as prize.
T68. Princess offered as prize.
T68.1. Princess offered as prize to rescuer. *Types 300, 301, 302, 303, 304, 506, 653.
T68.1. Princess offered as prize to rescuer. *Types 300, 301, 302, 303, 304, 506, 653.
T68.1. Princess offered as prize to rescuer. *Types 300, 301, 302, 303, 304, 506, 653.
T68.1. Princess offered as prize to rescuer. *Types 300, 301, 302, 303, 304, 506, 653.
T68.2. Earl's daughter as reward to knight who helped to kill fierce buffalo.
T68.3. Princess as prize to man who saves his country.
T68.4. Vanquished king gives hero his daughter and control over his kingdom.
T68.5. Girl marries hunter when he promises to return to monkey brothers their human form. (Cf. D118.)
T69. Wooing -- miscellaneous motifs.
T69.1. 100 brothers seek 100 sisters as wives. ---- (Seven -- seven, fifty -- fifty, etc.) Type 303*.
T69.1.1. Three brothers married to three sisters.
T69.1.2. Seven princesses sought by seven princes.
T69.2. Parents affiance children without their knowledge. Type 516.
T69.2.1. Parents wooing one of seven daughters for their son.
T69.2.2. Parents decide princess can marry no one who weighs more than she.
T69.3. Man gives daughter in return for his release. (Cf. S222.)
T69.3.1. Raja betroths his daughter to visitor's son as a compensation for murder.
T69.4. Bashful suitor directs his wooing to an oak.
T69.5. Father punishes daughter by giving her to poor man in marriage.
T70. The scorned lover.
T70. The scorned lover.
T70. The scorned lover.
T71. Women scorned in love.
T71. Women scorned in love.
T71. Women scorned in love.
T71. Women scorned in love.
T71. Women scorned in love.
T71. Women scorned in love.
T71.1. Accidental death fate of woman scorned in love.
T71.2. Woman avenges scorned love.
T71.2.1. Woman scorned in love complains of man's coldness.
T72. Woman won and then scorned.
T72. Woman won and then scorned.
T72. Woman won and then scorned.
T72.1. Maid eloping with pretended lover is forced by him to strip.
T72.1. Maid eloping with pretended lover is forced by him to strip.
T72.2. Nobleman marries poor girl and then abandons her.
T72.2.1. Prince marries scornful girl and punishes her.
T72.3. Woman sets out to kill man who has won and then scorned her. ---- Ruler brings about their reconciliation.
T72.4. Woman entertains two lovers on alternate nights. ---- They expose the deception and scorn her in public.
T75. Man scorned by his beloved.
T75.0.1. Suitors ill-treated.
T75.0.2. Mortal woman rejects deity for human lover.
T75.1. Scorn of unloved suitor punished. Types 402*, 906*.
T75.2. Scorned lover kills successful one.
T75.2.1. Rejected suitors' revenge.
T75.2.1. Rejected suitors' revenge.
T75.3. Unrequited love expressed in song (poem).
T75.4. Lady humiliates lover after he leaves wife for her.
T75.5. Scorned lover becomes an anchorite. (Cf. T330.)
T75.6. Divine hand catches scorned lover as he plunges from minaret top to die.
T76. Princess calls her suitors ugly names. *Type 900.
T77. Maid vexes suitor by pretense. ---- Noble maid who is to marry knight pretends to be beggar's daughter.
T80. Tragic love.
T80. Tragic love.
T80. Tragic love.
T80. Tragic love.
T80. Tragic love.
T80. Tragic love.
T80. Tragic love.
T81. Death from love.
T81. Death from love.
T81. Death from love.
T81. Death from love.
T81.1. Man dies at bedside of dying sweetheart.
T81.2. Death from unrequited love.
T81.2.1. Scorned lover kills self.
T81.2.1.1. Scorned lover (woman) threatens to kill self.
T81.3. Girl falls dead on lover's body.
T81.4. Man dies when the bride who had been denied him kisses him.
T81.5. Sick lover dies from exertion of embracing beloved.
T81.5. Sick lover dies from exertion of embracing beloved.
T81.6. Girl kills herself after lover's death.
T81.7. Woman dies on hearing of lover's or husband's death. (Cf. T211.9.1.)
T81.8. Wife swallows hot coal and dies because her husband is unfaithful.
T82. Bath of blood of beloved to cure love-sick empress.
T82. Bath of blood of beloved to cure love-sick empress.
T82. Bath of blood of beloved to cure love-sick empress.
T83. Hero and Leander. ---- Lover drowned as he swims to see his mistress.
T83.1. Girl drowns as she swims to see her lover. ---- Her brothers deceive her with false signal light.
T84. Lovers treacherously separated.
T85. Woman mourns dead lover.
T85.1. Woman thinking lover dead erects cenotaph and mourns before it.
T85.2. Princess hangs up weapons of dead lover as continual reminder.
T85.3. The Pot of Basil. ---- Mistress keeps murdered lover's skull in flower-pot.
T85.4. Lover's body kept embalmed for years by grieving mistress. (Cf. T211.4.)
T85.4.1. Ring of Fastrada. ---- (Tove's magic ring.) Lover keeps body of dead mistress (wife) intact by means of magic ring. When ring is removed from her finger, the body immediately decays and his is cured of his love.
T85.4.1. Ring of Fastrada. ---- (Tove's magic ring.) Lover keeps body of dead mistress (wife) intact by means of magic ring. When ring is removed from her finger, the body immediately decays and his is cured of his love.
T85.4.1. Ring of Fastrada. ---- (Tove's magic ring.) Lover keeps body of dead mistress (wife) intact by means of magic ring. When ring is removed from her finger, the body immediately decays and his is cured of his love.
T85.4.1. Ring of Fastrada. ---- (Tove's magic ring.) Lover keeps body of dead mistress (wife) intact by means of magic ring. When ring is removed from her finger, the body immediately decays and his is cured of his love.
T86. Lovers buried in same grave.
T86.1. Rival suitors kill each other over woman's love. ---- woman dies of broken heart and all three are buried in the same grave.
T86.2. Lovers die at the same time.
T86.3. Mistress springs into dead lover's grave.
T86.4. Girl and boy promised to each other by parents both die when they see each other after girl's marriage to another.
T87. Lovers forbidden to marry starve themselves to death.
T88. Woman stricken by plague and forsaken by her husband is sought out by unsuccessful lover and dies in his arms.
T88.1. Love kept up even after one of the parties is married to another.
T89. Tragic love -- miscellaneous motifs.
T89.1. Woman falls in love with dying warrior.
T89.1.1. Princess married to mortally wounded prince and both left in jungle.
T89.2. Woman sacrifices herself in order to save beloved.
T90. Love -- miscellaneous motifs.
T91. Unequals in love.
T91. Unequals in love.
T91. Unequals in love.
T91. Unequals in love.
T91. Unequals in love.
T91.1. Giant's daughter loves hero. See references to G530.2.
T91.1. Giant's daughter loves hero. See references to G530.2.
T91.1.1. Giant's daughter has child by hero.
T91.2. Love of mortal and devil.
T91.2.1. Devil would be maid's paramour. (Cf. G303.9.4.7.)
T91.3. Love of mortal and supernatural person.
T91.3.1. Supernatural lover performs girls work.
T91.3.2. Love of goddess for mortal. (Cf. T111.1.)
T91.3.3. God enamored of mortal. (Cf. A188.)
T91.3.3.1. God falls in love with a woman of low caste.
T91.4. Age and youth in love.
T91.4. Age and youth in love.
T91.4.1. Mature married woman in love with callow youth.
T91.4.1.1. Old teacher wishes to marry his young girl pupil.
T91.5. Rich and poor in love.
T91.5.1. Rich girl in love with poor boy.
T91.5.1.1. Daughter of merchant develops intimacy with slave.
T91.6. Noble and lowly in love.
T91.6.1. Lowly person falls in love with king (queen).
T91.6.1.1. Courtier in love with queen. ---- Queen asks him whom he loves. He holds up a mirror to her as answer. (Cf. T57.1.)
T91.6.2.
T91.6.2.0.1. King covets subject's wife.
T91.6.3. Prince falls in love with minister's daughter.
T91.6.3.1. Prince falls in love with merchant's daughter exposed.
T91.6.4. Princess falls in love with lowly boy. (Cf. L161. *Type 314.)
T91.6.4.1. Sultan's daughter in love with captured knight.
T91.6.4.1. Sultan's daughter in love with captured knight.
T91.6.4.1. Sultan's daughter in love with captured knight.
T91.6.4.1.1. Princess falls in love with knight. ---- Marries him after her husband's death.
T91.6.4.1.2. Hostile amazon's daughter loves hero.
T91.6.4.2. Princess falls in love with a king who becomes a slave.
T91.6.4.3. Princess runs away with hunchback.
T91.7. Unequals in love -- miscellaneous.
T91.7.1. Brahmin in love with washerwoman.
T91.7.2. Falling in love with someone of a different caste.
T92. Rivals in love.
T92. Rivals in love.
T92. Rivals in love.
T92. Rivals in love.
T92. Rivals in love.
T92. Rivals in love.
T92.0.1. Girl promised to three different suitors; ---- because she is unable to settle the dispute she eats poison and dies.
T92.1. The triangle plot and its solution. ---- Two men in love with the same woman; two women with the same man.
T92.1.1. Young wife of old man (king) loves (is loved by) younger man.
T92.1.2. Would-be unfaithful wife.
T92.2. Three victims of love. ---- Girl loves boy; boy loves singing girl; singing girl loves the girl. All die of despair.
T92.3. Girl leaves rescuer for younger lover.
T92.3.1. Girl leaves rescuer and elopes with his friend.
T92.4. Girl mistakenly elopes with the wrong lover. ---- The preferred suitor overtakes them, finds them asleep and waits for them to awaken. He himself falls asleep and when he wakes they have gone.
T92.4. Girl mistakenly elopes with the wrong lover. ---- The preferred suitor overtakes them, finds them asleep and waits for them to awaken. He himself falls asleep and when he wakes they have gone.
T92.4.1. Hero falls asleep while sweetheart is being married to another.
T92.4.2. Letter falsified and elopement with false lover arranged.
T92.4.3. In darkness of night trickster instead of her chosen lover elopes with girl.
T92.5. Lover kills his rival brother.
T92.6. Mother and daughter as rivals in love.
T92.7. Rival lovers do battle for girl. (Cf. T86.1.)
T92.8. Sisters in love with same man.
T92.9. Father and son as rivals in love.
T92.9.1. Parricide because of father-son rivalry for girl's love.
T92.10. Rival in love killed.
T92.10. Rival in love killed.
T92.10. Rival in love killed.
T92.10. Rival in love killed.
T92.11. Rivals contesting for the same girl.
T92.11.1. Rival suitors discomfit each other.
T92.12. Two smiths as rivals for love of girl.
T92.12.1. The tailor and the smith as rivals. ---- The tailor declares that the smith is blind and the smith declares that the tailor is a fool. At the wedding in church, the smith drops a hot piece of iron into the tailor's boot.
T92.13. Older warrior preferred as suitor.
T92.14. Three lovers mourn for dead girl: ---- one throws himself into her funeral pyre; another gathers together the ashes and vows to spend his life sitting upon them; third resolves to turn fakir.
T93. Fate of disappointed lover.
T93.1. Disappointed lover becomes a wild man in the woods. (Cf. F567.)
T93.2. Disappointed lover turns hermit. (Cf. V472.)
T93.2.1. Lover becomes friar and sweetheart nun when unable to marry.
T93.3. Disappointed lover kills self.
T93.4. Disappointed lover buys poison for girl. ---- Druggist substitutes sleeping potion. Girl revives and is reconciled.
T93.5. Tragic love between a Pari and a mortal man; ---- they never meet again, but continually roam the earth seeking each other.
T95. Lover opposed to sweetheart's relatives.
T95.0.1. Princess falls in love with father's enemy.
T95.1. Lover kills his lady's relatives in fight.
T96. Lovers reunited after many adventures.
T96. Lovers reunited after many adventures.
T96. Lovers reunited after many adventures.
T97. Father opposed to daughter's marriage.
T97. Father opposed to daughter's marriage.
T97. Father opposed to daughter's marriage.
T97. Father opposed to daughter's marriage.
T97. Father opposed to daughter's marriage.
T97. Father opposed to daughter's marriage.
T97. Father opposed to daughter's marriage.
T99. Love -- additional motifs.
T99.1. Death from excess of women. (Cf. F112.1.)
T99.2. Girl wants to marry lover even if he is mutilated.
T100--T199 Marriage.
T100. Marriage.
T100. Marriage.
T100. Marriage.
T100. Marriage.
T100. Marriage.
T100. Marriage.
T100. Marriage.
T100. Marriage.
T100. Marriage.
T100. Marriage.
T100. Marriage.
T100. Marriage.
T100. Marriage.
T100. Marriage.
T100. Marriage.
T100. Marriage.
T102. Hero returns and marries first love. Types 611, 884, 885**, 886.
T102. Hero returns and marries first love. Types 611, 884, 885**, 886.
T102. Hero returns and marries first love. Types 611, 884, 885**, 886.
T102. Hero returns and marries first love. Types 611, 884, 885**, 886.
T104. Foreign king wages war to enforce demand for princess in marriage.
T104.1. Rejected suitor wages war. (Cf. T75.2.1.)
T104.2. Victor demands defeated king's daughter (widow) in marriage.
T110. Unusual marriage.
T110. Unusual marriage.
T110. Unusual marriage.
T110. Unusual marriage.
T110. Unusual marriage.
T110. Unusual marriage.
T110. Unusual marriage.
T110. Unusual marriage.
T110. Unusual marriage.
T110. Unusual marriage.
T110. Unusual marriage.
T110. Unusual marriage.
T110. Unusual marriage.
T110. Unusual marriage.
T111. Marriage of mortal and supernatural being. *Type 425.
T111. Marriage of mortal and supernatural being. *Type 425.
T111. Marriage of mortal and supernatural being. *Type 425.
T111. Marriage of mortal and supernatural being. *Type 425.
T111. Marriage of mortal and supernatural being. *Type 425.
T111. Marriage of mortal and supernatural being. *Type 425.
T111. Marriage of mortal and supernatural being. *Type 425.
T111. Marriage of mortal and supernatural being. *Type 425.
T111. Marriage of mortal and supernatural being. *Type 425.
T111.0.1. Marriage to supernatural wives who disappear.
T111.0.2. Supernatural wife summoned by bell.
T111.1. Marriage of mortal and a god.
T111.1. Marriage of mortal and a god.
T111.1. Marriage of mortal and a god.
T111.1. Marriage of mortal and a god.
T111.1.1. Maiden chooses disguised god as husband.
T111.1.2. Man marries the daughter of a god.
T111.2. Woman from sky-world marries mortal man.
T111.2. Woman from sky-world marries mortal man.
T111.2. Woman from sky-world marries mortal man.
T111.2.1. Hero marries star in form of girl.
T111.2.1.1. Star-wife gives birth to a human baby.
T111.2.2. Marriage of mortal and moon. (Cf. A753.1.)
T111.2.3. Sun has a woman for his wife.
T111.3. Marriage of man with woman who has come from an egg.
T111.3. Marriage of man with woman who has come from an egg.
T111.3. Marriage of man with woman who has come from an egg.
T111.3. Marriage of man with woman who has come from an egg.
T111.4. God as lover of giantess (18 giantesses).
T111.5. Marriage of mortal and dwarf.
T111.6. Marriage of mortal and angel.
T113. Marriage to man alive by night but dead by day.
T113. Marriage to man alive by night but dead by day.
T113. Marriage to man alive by night but dead by day.
T113.1. Sorceress marries a man every morning and transforms him to some kind of animal in the evening. (Cf. D621.)
T115. Man marries ogre's daughter.
T117. Marriage of person and object.
T117.1. Marriage of girl to a dagger.
T117.2. Marriage of girl to a sword.
T117.3. Marriage of girl to a drum.
T117.4. Marriage of girl to an idol.
T117.5. Marriage with a tree.
T117.5.1. Marriage to tree by day, man by night. (Cf. D621.2, T113.)
T117.6. Marriage to a flower.
T117.7. Marriage to a gourd.
T117.8. Marriage to doll.
T117.9. Marriage to river.
T117.10. Plant wife (in form of a woman).
T117.11. Marriage to a statue.
T118. Girl (man) married to (enamored of) a monster. *Types 306, 506.
T118. Girl (man) married to (enamored of) a monster. *Types 306, 506.
T118. Girl (man) married to (enamored of) a monster. *Types 306, 506.
T118. Girl (man) married to (enamored of) a monster. *Types 306, 506.
T118. Girl (man) married to (enamored of) a monster. *Types 306, 506.
T118.1. Monster husband invisible.
T118.1. Monster husband invisible.
T118.1. Monster husband invisible.
T118.2. Marriage of dragon girl to orphan boy.
T121. Unequal marriage.
T121. Unequal marriage.
T121. Unequal marriage.
T121. Unequal marriage.
T121. Unequal marriage.
T121. Unequal marriage.
T121. Unequal marriage.
T121. Unequal marriage.
T121. Unequal marriage.
T121. Unequal marriage.
T121. Unequal marriage.
T121. Unequal marriage.
T121. Unequal marriage.
T121. Unequal marriage.
T121.1. Knight weds peasant girl.
T121.2. Noblewoman weds shepherd.
T121.3. Princess marries courtier.
T121.3.1. Princess marries lowly man. (Cf. L161.1.)
T121.4. Ruler marries fugitive noblewoman.
T121.5. Wealthy girl marries deformed and penniless philosopher.
T121.5.1. Princess marries saint.
T121.5.2. Rich girl marries fakir.
T121.6. Man weds his bondmaid.
T121.7. Rich girl marries servant.
T121.8.
T121.8.1. Infertile raja marries beggar woman in hope of having a son.
T122. Marriage by royal order. ---- Widow hesitates to marry. Queen sends her a letter ordering her to marry the bearer (a suitor).
T125. Lazy boy and industrious girl matched. ---- Jesus (incognito) as match-maker. *Type 822.
T125.1. Fool given intelligent wife; lame man hardworking wife.
T125.2. Blind girl marries lame man. (Cf. H886.)
T126. Fantastic marriage.
T126.1. Marriage of Mother Earth and ogre.
T126.2. Marriage of mountain and cockle-shell.
T126.3. Marriage of earth and sky.
T130. Marriage customs.
T130. Marriage customs.
T131. Marriage restrictions.
T131. Marriage restrictions.
T131. Marriage restrictions.
T131. Marriage restrictions.
T131. Marriage restrictions.
T131. Marriage restrictions.
T131. Marriage restrictions.
T131.0.1. Princess has unrestricted choice of husband. (Cf. T55.7.)
T131.0.1.1. Father promises that girl may wed only man of her choice.
T131.1. Relative's consent to marriage necessary.
T131.1.1. Brother's consent for sister's marriage needed.
T131.1.2. Father's consent to son's (daughter's) marriage necessary.
T131.1.2.1. Girl must marry father's choice.
T131.1.2.2. King chooses bridegroom for daughter from boys' pictures.
T131.1.2.3. Father demands that son break all relations with his beloved.
T131.1.2.4. Son refuses to marry father's choice.
T131.1.3. Marriage against will of parents.
T131.2. Younger child may not marry before elder.
T131.3. Eldest daughter will marry man only if he will marry all her sisters too.
T131.4. Widow may not remarry.
T131.4. Widow may not remarry.
T131.5. Exogamy. Marriage only outside the group.
T131.5.1. Marriage within clans sanctioned because of incest-origin of tribe.
T131.6. Girl will marry on condition she is to be only wife.
T131.7. King may not marry girl who has been wife of another.
T131.7. King may not marry girl who has been wife of another.
T131.7. King may not marry girl who has been wife of another.
T131.7. King may not marry girl who has been wife of another.
T131.8. Different religion as obstacle for marriage.
T131.9. Brahmin may marry from all four castes.
T132. Preparation for wedding.
T132.1. Girl fattened before wedding.
T132.2. Parents become servants to secure funds for wedding.
T133. Travel to wedding.
T133.1. Faithful servant accompanies bride to new home.
T133.2. Royal bride conducted by embassy to husband's kingdom. (Cf. T51.)
T133.3. Drummer beats drums before bride on way to wedding.
T133.4. Bridegroom and his men come for the bride.
T133.5. Mounting upon horse to fetch bride.
T133.6. Groom's mother visits bride-to-be and puts the betrothal ring on her finger.
T134. Conduct of bridal couple before ceremony.
T134.1. Bridal couple must never see each other before wedding.
T134.2. Betrothed parties do not see each other until night of the wedding.
T134.3. Man who has once been married helps groom to dress for wedding.
T135. Wedding ceremony.
T135.1. Marriage formula: "You are mine and I am yours".
T135.2. Touching of privates considered a marriage pact.
T135.3. Wedding by proxy.
T135.3.1. Sword and shield as proxy at wedding ceremony.
T135.4. Groom's sword makes vermillion mark on bride's forehead as wedding ceremony.
T135.5. Marriage by exchange of garlands.
T135.6. Marriage by drinking festival. (Cf. T136.1.)
T135.7. The bride must have someone to give her away, usually her father or brother.
T135.8. Two or more weddings at one time as the end of a tale.
T135.9. Wedding ceremony in church.
T135.10. Marriage custom: going round and round fire (pillar, etc.).
T135.11. Bride and groom drink from same cup as part of ceremony.
T135.12. Bodies of would-be bride and groom besmeared with turmeric and mustard-oil.
T135.13. Bride and groom look into a big mirror while old member of family knocks both their heads together.
T135.14. Wedding-canopy over bride and groom.
T135.15. Breaking a glass during wedding ceremony.
T136. Accompaniments of wedding.
T136.1. Wedding feast.
T136.2. Rice thrown at weddings.
T136.3. Amusements at wedding.
T136.3.1. Dancing at wedding.
T136.3.2. Marriage odes sung at wedding feast.
T136.4. Gifts at wedding.
T136.4.1. Gifts for bridal couple by a special ceremony with the bride on a bridebench.
T136.4.2. Parting gifts after wedding.
T136.4.3. Bride scatters presents among groom's relations.
T137. Customs following wedding.
T137.1. Advice to a parting bride.
T137.2. Bride and bridegroom conducted to bridal bed.
T137.2.1. Bride and groom simultaneously touch hearthstones and put one foot down inside threshold as they enter groom's house.
T137.3. Groom invited after marriage ceremony into female apartments to eat wedding breakfast with the bride.
T137.4. Groom becomes a member of bride's family.
T137.5. Bride (and party) fetched by groom and party after wedding.
T137.6. Journey to husband's home accompanied by attendants.
T141. Assignment of bride to another.
T141.1. Dying man assigns bride to his brother.
T141.2. Wives exchanged.
T141.3. Hero assigns the bride he has won to another.
T143. Infant marriages.
T145. Polygamous marriages.
T145.0.1. Polygyny.
T145.1. Marriage to five women, each with separate duties.
T145.1.1. Man requires seven women.
T145.1.2. Seven wives each to have the husband one day a week.
T145.1.3. Man married to several sisters.
T145.2. Second wife taken because first is barren.
T145.3. Competition in ale-brewing between king's two wives.
T145.4. Man's two wives each claim part of his body: they torment him.
T145.5. Man pulled down stairs by his two wives.
T145.6. Polygamist must love all his wives.
T145.7. Man's senior wife ugly but diligent; his second, beautiful but lazy.
T145.8. Polygamy so that head wife may be quickly replaced for wrongdoing.
T146. Polyandry. ---- Woman with two husbands.
T146.1. Several men marry one woman.
T146.1. Several men marry one woman.
T146.2. Woman requires thirty men.
T147. Marriages made at annual festival.
T148. Matriarchy.
T148. Matriarchy.
T148.1. Son named for mother.
T150. Happenings at weddings.
T150. Happenings at weddings.
T150. Happenings at weddings.
T150. Happenings at weddings.
T150. Happenings at weddings.
T150. Happenings at weddings.
T150. Happenings at weddings.
T150. Happenings at weddings.
T150. Happenings at weddings.
T150. Happenings at weddings.
T150. Happenings at weddings.
T151. Year's respite from unwelcome marriage. *Type 300, 301.
T151.0.1. Respite ruse. ---- Captive maiden assigns quest, agreeing to marry when it is accomplished.
T151.0.1. Respite ruse. ---- Captive maiden assigns quest, agreeing to marry when it is accomplished.
T151.0.1. Respite ruse. ---- Captive maiden assigns quest, agreeing to marry when it is accomplished.
T151.0.2. Father giving away daughter makes condition: son-in-law not to see daughter as his wife during one year.
T151.1. Six months' respite from unwelcome marriage.
T151.2. Thirty days' respite from unwelcome marriage.
T151.3. Other respites from unwelcome marriage ---- (three months, two years, etc.).
T152. Bride wounded accidentally on way home. ---- Fatal wound from bridegroom's sword.
T153. Bridegroom slain on way to bride.
T154. Cruel stepmother enchants stepdaughter on eve of wedding. (Cf. D5, S31.)
T155. Old beggar transforms wedding party into wolves. (Cf. D113.1.)
T156. Marriage for a night to evade law. ---- In order to have girl escape unwelcome marriage, the hero agrees to marry her and give her up the next day. He puts up a large bond as pledge to give her up. But he gets hold of the money by trickery and keeps her.
T156. Marriage for a night to evade law. ---- In order to have girl escape unwelcome marriage, the hero agrees to marry her and give her up the next day. He puts up a large bond as pledge to give her up. But he gets hold of the money by trickery and keeps her.
T156.1. Marriage for a night to insure heir of warrior destined to be slain (next day) in battle.
T157. Affianced wife of chieftain falls in love with another man at betrothal feast, drugs the company with sleeping potion, and forces man of her choice to elope with her.
T160. Consummation of marriage.
T160. Consummation of marriage.
T160. Consummation of marriage.
T160. Consummation of marriage.
T160. Consummation of marriage.
T160. Consummation of marriage.
T160. Consummation of marriage.
T160. Consummation of marriage.
T160. Consummation of marriage.
T160. Consummation of marriage.
T161. Jus primae noctis. ---- Overlord claims right of sleeping the first night with subject's wife.
T161. Jus primae noctis. ---- Overlord claims right of sleeping the first night with subject's wife.
T161. Jus primae noctis. ---- Overlord claims right of sleeping the first night with subject's wife.
T161. Jus primae noctis. ---- Overlord claims right of sleeping the first night with subject's wife.
T161.0.1. King deflowers all twelve year old girls.
T161.1. Lover allowed to sleep with woman first few nights after her marriage to another.
T162. Feast of "bedding and handspreading" before consummation of marriage.
T165. Girl may remain virgin for three days after marriage. (Cf. C117.)
T165.1. Consummation of marriage postponed until revelation by dream ---- of future of family has been secured.
T165.2. One year to elapse between ceremony and consummation of marriage.
T165.3. Twenty-four hours to elapse before consummation of marriage.
T165.4. Bride and groom separated on wedding night.
T165.5. Three years asked before consummation of marriage as trick.
T165.6. Consummation of marriage postponed till couple return home.
T165.7. For first six months bride of prince is only to sit an hour or two in his house.
T166. Bride afraid of intercourse refuses consummation until judge orders it in court.
T166.1. Bridge refuses to sleep with ugly groom.
T166.2. Bridegroom must be taught sexual intercourse.
T166.2. Bridegroom must be taught sexual intercourse.
T171. Bridegroom driven from bridal chamber by magic. ---- Usually by hornets or wasps. *Type 559.
T172. Dangers to husband in bridal chamber.
T172.0.1. All husbands have perished on bridal night. See references to F547.1.1, F582, F582.1. *Types 506 -- 08.
T172.0.1. All husbands have perished on bridal night. See references to F547.1.1, F582, F582.1. *Types 506 -- 08.
T172.0.1. All husbands have perished on bridal night. See references to F547.1.1, F582, F582.1. *Types 506 -- 08.
T172.1. Bridal chamber filled with coiled snakes.
T172.2.
T172.2.1. Grateful dead man kills princess's monster husband. ---- (Or otherwise renders her innocuous to the bridegroom.) *Type 506 -- 08.
T172.2.1. Grateful dead man kills princess's monster husband. ---- (Or otherwise renders her innocuous to the bridegroom.) *Type 506 -- 08.
T172.3. Bride's monster-father tries to kill husband, but is defeated.
T173. Murderous bride.
T173.1. Strong bride tries to stifle husband in bed. *Type 519.
T173.2. Hostile brides kill husbands in the bridal bed.
T175. Magic perils threaten bridal couple. ---- The perils are various -- magic horse, poison, enchanted clothes, etc. *Type 516.
T175. Magic perils threaten bridal couple. ---- The perils are various -- magic horse, poison, enchanted clothes, etc. *Type 516.
T175. Magic perils threaten bridal couple. ---- The perils are various -- magic horse, poison, enchanted clothes, etc. *Type 516.
T175.1. Falling furniture threatens bridal couple. ---- Furniture etc. arranged by jealous rival so that it will fall.
T177. Bridegroom magically impelled to leave his bride.
T177. Bridegroom magically impelled to leave his bride.
T181. Dangerous husband. (Cf. T172.)
T182. Death from intercourse.
T190. Marriage -- miscellaneous motifs.
T192. Marriage by force.
T200--T299 Married life.
T200. Married life.
T200. Married life.
T200. Married life.
T200. Married life.
T200. Married life.
T200. Married life.
T200. Married life.
T200. Married life.
T200. Married life.
T200. Married life.
T200. Married life.
T200. Married life.
T200. Married life.
T200. Married life.
T200. Married life.
T200. Married life.
T200. Married life.
T200. Married life.
T200. Married life.
T200. Married life.
T200. Married life.
T200. Married life.
T200. Married life.
T200. Married life.
T200. Married life.
T200. Married life.
T200. Married life.
T200. Married life.
T200. Married life.
T200. Married life.
T200. Married life.
T200. Married life.
T201. Marriage destroys friendship. ---- Lover and mistress live together and are happy; become unhappy as soon as they marry.
T202. The happy couple: wife blind, husband deaf.
T203. Peace in marriage more important than truth.
T210. Faithfulness in marriage.
T210. Faithfulness in marriage.
T210. Faithfulness in marriage.
T210. Faithfulness in marriage.
T210. Faithfulness in marriage.
T210. Faithfulness in marriage.
T210. Faithfulness in marriage.
T210. Faithfulness in marriage.
T210. Faithfulness in marriage.
T210. Faithfulness in marriage.
T210. Faithfulness in marriage.
T210. Faithfulness in marriage.
T210. Faithfulness in marriage.
T210. Faithfulness in marriage.
T210. Faithfulness in marriage.
T210.1. Faithful wife.
T210.2. Faithful husband.
T211. Faithfulness to marriage in death.
T211. Faithfulness to marriage in death.
T211. Faithfulness to marriage in death.
T211. Faithfulness to marriage in death.
T211.1. Wife dies so that husband's death may be postponed.
T211.1. Wife dies so that husband's death may be postponed.
T211.1. Wife dies so that husband's death may be postponed.
T211.1.1. Woman drowns herself as sacrifice to water-gods to save husband's boat from capsizing.
T211.1.1. Woman drowns herself as sacrifice to water-gods to save husband's boat from capsizing.
T211.1.2. Husband learning form augurs that his wife will die if he saves self from serpent, lets self be bitten to death.
T211.1.3. Wife offers to sacrifice her right arm for husband's safe return.
T211.1.4. Female deer offers herself instead of her mate, who has been captured. ---- Hunter, struck by her sacrifice, lets both go.
T211.2. Wife's suicide at husband's death. (Cf. T81.7.)
T211.2.1. Wife throws herself on husband's funeral pyre.
T211.2.1. Wife throws herself on husband's funeral pyre.
T211.2.1. Wife throws herself on husband's funeral pyre.
T211.2.1.1. Wife prefers to be burned together with husband even though she was forced to marry him ---- and she has helped to prepare the revenge.
T211.2.2. Wife promises to die with husband.
T211.3. Husband and wife kill themselves so as not to be separated.
T211.3.1. Husband falls on sword when his wife dies.
T211.3.2. Wife hangs self because her husband has been killed.
T211.4. Spouse's corpse kept after death.
T211.4.1. Wife's corpse kept after death. Type 612.
T211.4.1. Wife's corpse kept after death. Type 612.
T211.4.2. Husband's corpse kept after death.
T211.4.2.1. Wife will not give up dead body of husband to God of Death.
T211.5. Man becomes a hermit after his wife's death.
T211.6. Widowed she-fox rejects suitors who do not resemble her deceased husband. *Type 65.
T211.7. Girl forced to marry before sweetheart's return is faithful to her husband. ---- When she refuses to give her former fiancé a kiss, he falls dead. She goes to his funeral and falls dead over his body.
T211.7. Girl forced to marry before sweetheart's return is faithful to her husband. ---- When she refuses to give her former fiancé a kiss, he falls dead. She goes to his funeral and falls dead over his body.
T211.7. Girl forced to marry before sweetheart's return is faithful to her husband. ---- When she refuses to give her former fiancé a kiss, he falls dead. She goes to his funeral and falls dead over his body.
T211.8. Wife unwilling to deceive her husband for the man she loves.
T211.9. Excessive grief at husband's or wife's death.
T211.9.1. Wife dies of grief for death of husband. (Cf. T81.7.)
T211.9.1.1. Wife swoons realizing her husband is dead.
T211.9.2. Man kills self in grief for wife.
T211.9.2.1. Grieving man goes to die where his wife's corpse lies.
T212. Loving couple die of separation.
T212.1. Constancy of wife brings husband back to life.
T213. Husband (wife) sickens as result of separation from spouse.
T215. Faithfulness of married couple in misfortune.
T215.1. Wife carries mutilated husband on her back so that he may beg.
T215.2. Wife offers starving husband (father) milk from her breasts.
T215.3. Husband nourishes starving wife with his own flesh and blood.
T215.4. Wife puts out one of her eyes to show sympathy with her husband. ---- He has lost an eye in a tournament and is ashamed to return to her. She shows that it makes no difference in her love.
T215.5. Fugitive returns to his family so that they may collect reward from his capture.
T215.6. Woman swims nightly to husband's prison and arranges his escape. ---- Spurns the attentions of treacherous suitor. (Cf. R152.)
T215.7. Wife travels for years with sick husband in order to have him cured.
T215.7.1. Wife alone does not desert leprous husband.
T215.8. Woman sells her hair to feed starving husband.
T216. Loathly bridegroom carried on back in basket by wife.
T216. Loathly bridegroom carried on back in basket by wife.
T217. Wife refuses to become unfaithful although she knows her husband to be so.
T221. Woman's naiveté proves her fidelity. ---- Man is rebuked for having bad breath. He reproves his wife for never having told him. "I thought that men liked it as I did." He realizes that his wife has not known any other man.
T222. Wife hides husband's unfaithfulness from emperor and even shelters his mistress.
T224. Husband tempted by own wife disguised in fine clothes: says he will touch no woman save his wife. ---- She puts on her old clothes.
T224. Husband tempted by own wife disguised in fine clothes: says he will touch no woman save his wife. ---- She puts on her old clothes.
T230. Faithlessness in marriage.
T230. Faithlessness in marriage.
T230. Faithlessness in marriage.
T230. Faithlessness in marriage.
T230. Faithlessness in marriage.
T230. Faithlessness in marriage.
T230. Faithlessness in marriage.
T230. Faithlessness in marriage.
T230. Faithlessness in marriage.
T230. Faithlessness in marriage.
T230. Faithlessness in marriage.
T230. Faithlessness in marriage.
T230. Faithlessness in marriage.
T230. Faithlessness in marriage.
T230. Faithlessness in marriage.
T230. Faithlessness in marriage.
T230. Faithlessness in marriage.
T230. Faithlessness in marriage.
T230. Faithlessness in marriage.
T230. Faithlessness in marriage.
T230. Faithlessness in marriage.
T230. Faithlessness in marriage.
T230. Faithlessness in marriage.
T230.1. Wife and husband believe each unfaithful at the slightest provocation.
T230.2. Faithless wife causes her husband to go insane.
T231. The faithless widow.
T231. The faithless widow.
T231. The faithless widow.
T231. The faithless widow.
T231.1. Faithless widow betrothed anew at husband's funeral.
T231.2. Faithless widow fans husband's grave. ---- She does not want to remarry until the body is cold (or the earth on the grave is dry).
T231.3. Faithless widow ready to marry messenger who brings news of husband's death. ---- The husband, however, has only feigned death to test her. (Cf. T235. *Type 1350.)
T231.3.1. Faithless widow offers city to killer of her husband if he will marry her.
T231.4. Faithless widow's heartlessness repels the new suitor. ---- She obeys him when he tells her to knock out the teeth of her dead husband. Fearing like treatment, he leaves. Type 1352*.
T231.5. Faithless widow marries slayer of husband.
T232. Woman deserts husband for unworthy lover. ---- (Deformed, mutilated, monstrous, or of different race.)
T232.1. Woman consorts with leper.
T232.2. Adulteress chooses loathly paramour.
T232.3. Adulteress poisons husband in order to be with swineherd.
T232.4. Woman enamored of repulsive and abusive lover.
T232.4. Woman enamored of repulsive and abusive lover.
T232.5. Faithless wife pays her paramour for enjoying herself with him.
T233. Wronged wife goes to wronged husband.
T235. Husband transforms himself to test his wife's faithfulness. (Cf. T231.3.)
T235. Husband transforms himself to test his wife's faithfulness. (Cf. T231.3.)
T235. Husband transforms himself to test his wife's faithfulness. (Cf. T231.3.)
T235. Husband transforms himself to test his wife's faithfulness. (Cf. T231.3.)
T236. Woman enamored of an unknown knight in a tournament loses interest when she finds that it is her husband. (Cf. R222.)
T237. Old man married to young, unfaithful wife.
T238. Adulteress on her death-bed reveals the illegitimacy of her children. ---- Did not want her husband to be burdened with their bringing up.
T241. Series of husbands try in vain to control adulteress.
T243. Fight between husband and lover for kingdom and wife.
T244. Woman reveals whereabouts of husband to enemy in revenge for desertion.
T244.1. Woman reveals whereabouts of husband to hungry bear in revenge for desertion.
T245. Man unfaithful even on wedding night.
T247. Object stolen (left) as token that infidelity has been discovered.
T247.1. Substituted sword. ---- Husband leaves wooden sword in scabbard of wife's paramour upon discovering their infidelity.
T249. Faithlessness in marriage -- miscellaneous.
T249.1. Adulterous wife convicted commits suicide.
T249.2. Husband and wife (king and queen) each unfaithful to other.
T250. Characteristics of wives and husbands.
T250. Characteristics of wives and husbands.
T250. Characteristics of wives and husbands.
T250. Characteristics of wives and husbands.
T250. Characteristics of wives and husbands.
T250. Characteristics of wives and husbands.
T251. The shrewish wife.
T251. The shrewish wife.
T251. The shrewish wife.
T251.0.1. Man ejected from heaven for folly of marrying twice.
T251.0.2. Christ, not having married, knew nothing about suffering. ---- So thinks the man after hearing all about Christ's torments.
T251.0.3. Man reprimanded by judge for marrying several times. ---- The man replies that he was always looking for a good wife.
T251.1. Avoiding the shrewish wife.
T251.1.1. Belfagor. ---- The devil frightened by the shrewish wife. A man persuades his shrewish wife to let herself be lowered into a well. When he comes to pull her out he raises a genie (devil) who is glad to escape from the woman. Later he frightens the devil by telling him that his wife has escaped. *Type 1164.
T251.1.1. Belfagor. ---- The devil frightened by the shrewish wife. A man persuades his shrewish wife to let herself be lowered into a well. When he comes to pull her out he raises a genie (devil) who is glad to escape from the woman. Later he frightens the devil by telling him that his wife has escaped. *Type 1164.
T251.1.1.1. Devil flees shrewish wife and enters body of a duke. ---- Exorcised by telling him that they are sending for his wife.
T251.1.2. Late husband chooses to remain in Purgatory rather than to return to his shrewish wife.
T251.1.2.1. Husband chooses to go to hell rather than join shrewish wife in heaven.
T251.1.2.2. Man in hell declares that life there is much better than on earth with his wife. ---- Bargain with the devil: should the latter not be able to endure life with his wife for three years, the man would be released from hell. The devil is the loser.
T251.1.3. Man had rather remain transformed to mule than to live with his shrewish wife.
T251.1.4. Man forces devil to take back the shrewish wife.
T251.1.5. Minstrel throws wife into sea: her tongue the heaviest thing on board. ---- Ordered to throw all heavy articles overboard.
T251.1.6. Thief overhears and oversees quarrel of two jealous wives. ---- Arraigned before judge, he asks any punishment be given him rather than that of having two wives.
T251.2. Taming the shrew. ---- By outdoing his wife in shrewishness the husband renders her obedient. *Types 900, 901.
T251.2. Taming the shrew. ---- By outdoing his wife in shrewishness the husband renders her obedient. *Types 900, 901.
T251.2. Taming the shrew. ---- By outdoing his wife in shrewishness the husband renders her obedient. *Types 900, 901.
T251.2.1. Shrew tamed by setting another shrew against her.
T251.2.2. Husband dons armor and forces the household to shout: "Long live the Master!" ---- Takes off his breeches and dares his wife to put them on. Establishes his mastery in the home.
T251.2.3. Wife becomes obedient on seeing husband slay a recalcitrant horse.
T251.2.3.1. Husband tries to reform wife by killing a recalcitrant horse in her presence. ---- She thinks he has lost his mind and continues in her ways.
T251.2.4. The wicked queen reformed. ---- While asleep she is made to exchange places with the cobbler's wife. She thinks she is in hell. The cobbler teaches her to obey and fear her husband.
T251.2.4. The wicked queen reformed. ---- While asleep she is made to exchange places with the cobbler's wife. She thinks she is in hell. The cobbler teaches her to obey and fear her husband.
T251.2.5. Shrewish wife driven from home but when in danger, runs to husband and receives protection. ---- She is a good wife thereafter.
T251.3. St. Peter's wife meets him with a broom handle. ---- She is waiting for him at the rear door of the house. Type 754**.
T251.4. Socrates and Zanthippe: "After thunder rain". ---- He thus remarks as she empties slops on his head.
T251.5. Strength in words, in herbs, and in stones. ---- When first two do not cure shrewish wife, the last does. (Cf. J1563.6, J1581.2, J2412.5.)
T251.6. The browbeaten husband from under the table: "The man always has a man's heart." Type 1366*.
T251.7. Husband will not search for shrewish wife who has run away from him.
T251.8. Shrewish wife gives husband heating every morning.
T251.9. Husband consoled by seeing woman even more shrewish than his wife. (Cf. J882.)
T251.10. Wife beats her husband and eats up everything he earns.
T251.11. Fakir thankful for shrewish wife: she is a thorn in his flesh and warns him from neglecting the ways of righteousness.
T252. The overbearing wife.
T252.1. Unsuccessful search for man who can rule his wife. Type 1375*.
T252.2. Cock shows browbeaten husband how to rule his wife. (Cf. J21.16, J130. *Type 670.)
T252.2.1. King sees how male stork kills his unfaithful wife. ---- Follows its example.
T252.2.2. Monkey (jackal, etc.) shows husband how to rule his wife.
T252.2.2.1. King tells jackal his statistics are wrong since there are more men than women. ---- Jackal: husbands ruled by their wives counted as women.
T252.3. Wife threatens husband with death if he will not tell secrets. *Type 670.
T252.3. Wife threatens husband with death if he will not tell secrets. *Type 670.
T252.3. Wife threatens husband with death if he will not tell secrets. *Type 670.
T252.3. Wife threatens husband with death if he will not tell secrets. *Type 670.
T252.3. Wife threatens husband with death if he will not tell secrets. *Type 670.
T252.3. Wife threatens husband with death if he will not tell secrets. *Type 670.
T252.4. Prize for husband who rules his wife. ---- (Ham, egg.)
T252.4.1. Man claims prize (boots) as ruler of his house, but is afraid to carry the boots lest he soil his clean shirt and anger his wife.
T252.5. Men rulers in their house asked to sing. ---- No man in congregation does so. Priest alone sings. Next year he cannot, for then he has a maid.
T252.6. Wife threatens suicide if she does not have her own way.
T252.7. Vexed woman brings pot down on husband's head in presence of guest.
T253. The nagging wife.
T253.1. Nagging wife drives husband to prepare for suicide. *Type 670.
T253.2. Woman advised that nagging will never make a husband virtuous.
T253.3. Saint composes hymn to free himself from the mala vita in which he lives with his wife.
T254. The disobedient wife.
T254. The disobedient wife.
T254. The disobedient wife.
T254. The disobedient wife.
T254.1. The husband shows his wife poison to avoid: she takes it and dies.
T254.2. Husband forbids wife to ride on the dog: she immediately does ---- so and is bitten.
T254.3. Man with obedient wife looks young; with disobedient, old.
T254.4. Man forbids wife to open chest. ---- Loaded crossbow placed in it. She opens it and is killed.
T254.5. Husband warns wife not to enter empty furnace. ---- She does so and it falls in upon her.
T254.6. Disobedient wife punished.
T254.6.1. Wife refuses to bring husband warm water: is beaten.
T255. The obstinate wife or husband. (Cf. J2511. *Type 1365.)
T255.1. The obstinate wife: cutting with knife or scissors. ---- At the end of the argument the man throws his wife into the water. As she sinks she makes with her finger the motion of shearing with the scissors. *Type 1365B.
T255.2. The obstinate wife sought for up-stream. ---- When she falls into the stream, the husband concludes that she would be too obstinate to go with the current. *Type 1365A.
T255.3. The obstinate wife: sign of the louse. ---- She calls her husband a lousy head. He throws her into the stream. As she sinks she makes a sign of cracking a louse. *Type 1365C.
T255.4. The obstinate wife: the third egg. ---- The husband and the wife dispute as to who shall eat the third egg. She pretends to die. At the grave she asks him, "Do I eat two of the three eggs?" and he gives his consent. She jumps up and cries out "I eat two!" and everyone flees except a lame man who exclaims, "Poor me and the other one!"
T255.4.1. The obstinate wife: insists on eating three of the five eggs.
T255.5. The dish which the husband detests and the wife keeps serving him. ---- He affects to like it and thus gets rid of it. Type 1390*.
T255.6. Obstinate wife refuses to take cover off boiling kettle. ---- Is beaten by husband.
T255.7. Man warns his wife that he has dreamed that she is attacked by a wolf. ---- She pays no heed to him and the dream comes true.
T256. The quarrelsome wife or husband.
T256.0.1. Quarrel between husband and wife explained by their having been previously a tiger and a dog.
T256.1. Quarrelsome wife conquered by silent husband.
T256.2. Medicine against quarrelling: the wife must take one dose and keep it in her mouth for ten minutes as soon as her husband is angry.
T256.3. Quarrelsome wife reproved by a good whipping.
T257. Jealous wife or husband.
T257. Jealous wife or husband.
T257. Jealous wife or husband.
T257. Jealous wife or husband.
T257. Jealous wife or husband.
T257. Jealous wife or husband.
T257.0.1. Heavenly maidens are not jealous.
T257.1. Woman jealous of a fair maid in her house. ---- Fears her attraction for her husband.
T257.1.1. King's wives jealous of his attention to pet animal.
T257.2. Jealousy of rival wives.
T257.2. Jealousy of rival wives.
T257.2. Jealousy of rival wives.
T257.2. Jealousy of rival wives.
T257.2. Jealousy of rival wives.
T257.2.1. Wife exposes bald head of second wife to disgrace her. ---- Hair marvelously regrows.
T257.2.2.
T257.3. Decision not to punish a jealous husband: he already suffers enough.
T257.4. Husband jealous of wife who goes to confession is punished by the priest. ---- When the husband sees the priest take her behind the altar to punish her he volunteers to take the punishment. The wife says, "Pound him well. I am a terrible sinner."
T257.5. Jealous husband kills nightingale which his wife gets up to hear.
T257.5.1. Woman's scented hair attracts deer: husband jealous.
T257.6. Jealous king causes massacre of handsome young captives.
T257.7. Husband's unjust jealousy forces wife to commit adultery.
T257.7.1. Wife repays husband's supposed adultery by doing likewise.
T257.8. Jealous husband objects to wife's enjoyment of intercourse: thinks she has had previous experience.
T257.9. Jealous husband spends all his earnings as skillful smith bribing courtiers not to talk to his wife, ---- and at last locks her up in hut in the forest.
T257.10. Trickster sends jealous wife after husband: steals food. (Cf. K343.)
T257.11. Jealous wife ties husband to her so that he cannot get away to meet another woman.
T258. The curious wife.
T258. The curious wife.
T258. The curious wife.
T258. The curious wife.
T258. The curious wife.
T258. The curious wife.
T258.1. The curious wife: wait and see. ---- A man and his wife overhear thieves planning to rob the house, put the man out of the way, and have their will of the wife. The man wants to raise an alarm. She says, "Wait and see."
T258.1.1. Husband insists on knowing wife's secret.
T258.2. Wife insists upon knowing husband's secret. Type 670.
T261. The ungrateful wife. (Cf. W154.)
T261.1. Husband takes wife's place and receives punishment for her adultery. ---- She is ungrateful.
T263. The hypocritical wife. ---- Shows what she has done for her husband, but not what she has done for herself.
T265. Jewels of Cornelia. ---- She shows her children as her jewels.
T268. Beautiful woman married to hideous man: ---- he is thankful, she patient. She says that they have thus both gained paradise.
T271. The neglected wife.
T271.1. Woman gets rid of impotent husband and remarries.
T271.1.1. Mistress of impotent husband sends her maid to find a man for her.
T272. The silent wife.
T272.1. Silent wife brought to speech by dangers to her husband. (Cf. F954.)
T274. Wife cannot keep secret.
T274. Wife cannot keep secret.
T274. Wife cannot keep secret.
T275. The spendthrift wife.
T280. Other aspects of married life.
T281. Sex hospitality. ---- Host gives his wife (daughter) to his guest as bed companion.
T281. Sex hospitality. ---- Host gives his wife (daughter) to his guest as bed companion.
T281. Sex hospitality. ---- Host gives his wife (daughter) to his guest as bed companion.
T281. Sex hospitality. ---- Host gives his wife (daughter) to his guest as bed companion.
T281. Sex hospitality. ---- Host gives his wife (daughter) to his guest as bed companion.
T281. Sex hospitality. ---- Host gives his wife (daughter) to his guest as bed companion.
T281. Sex hospitality. ---- Host gives his wife (daughter) to his guest as bed companion.
T281.1. Sex hospitality given to druid.
T281.2. Sex hospitality given to king (prince).
T282. Handmaid given as wife unto husband by barren wife.
T282.1. First (barren) wife insists her husband should take second wife.
T283. Wife withholds intercourse from husband to enforce demand.
T284. Frightened wife shows marks of affection for husband. ---- This is so rare that he pardons the robber who has caused the fright.
T285. Mistress has always said her "Aves": Virgin Mary refuses to help wife against her rival. ---- The wife tells this to the mistress, who repents.
T285. Mistress has always said her "Aves": Virgin Mary refuses to help wife against her rival. ---- The wife tells this to the mistress, who repents.
T285. Mistress has always said her "Aves": Virgin Mary refuses to help wife against her rival. ---- The wife tells this to the mistress, who repents.
T286. Sight of mistress's ring causes husband to withhold himself from his wife.
T287. Why separation of a good woman from a bad man is a benefit.
T288. Wife refuses to sleep with detested husband.
T288.1. Wife curses unbeloved husband who attempts to force her.
T291. Why widow does not remarry. ---- (1) Only her property is wanted; (2) her husband is still in her heart; (3) if new husband is bad it will not be well, if he is good there will be the fear that he will die.
T291. Why widow does not remarry. ---- (1) Only her property is wanted; (2) her husband is still in her heart; (3) if new husband is bad it will not be well, if he is good there will be the fear that he will die.
T291. Why widow does not remarry. ---- (1) Only her property is wanted; (2) her husband is still in her heart; (3) if new husband is bad it will not be well, if he is good there will be the fear that he will die.
T291. Why widow does not remarry. ---- (1) Only her property is wanted; (2) her husband is still in her heart; (3) if new husband is bad it will not be well, if he is good there will be the fear that he will die.
T291.1. Wife keeps vow never to wed after her husband's death.
T292. Wife sold unwillingly by husband.
T292.1. Wives traded.
T294. Husband (wife) of supernatural being longs for old home and visits relatives.
T294. Husband (wife) of supernatural being longs for old home and visits relatives.
T294. Husband (wife) of supernatural being longs for old home and visits relatives.
T294. Husband (wife) of supernatural being longs for old home and visits relatives.
T295. Husband's indiscreet boast about wife brings about his death. ---- King regards his wife as so beautiful that he has a friend view her naked through a crack in the wall. Wife learns of his act, goes over to the man who has viewed her, and with the latter brings about the king's death.
T296.
T298. Reconciliation of separated couple.
T298. Reconciliation of separated couple.
T298. Reconciliation of separated couple.
T298. Reconciliation of separated couple.
T298. Reconciliation of separated couple.
T299. Other aspects of married life -- miscellaneous.
T299.1. Sleeping with head laid in wife's lap as sign of tenderness.
T299.2. Wife gives wise warning to husband.
T299.2.1. Man warned by wife against stepping on red cloth.
T299.2.2. Wife warns departing hero against seductions of women.
T300--T399 Chastity and celibacy.
T300. Chastity and celibacy.
T300. Chastity and celibacy.
T300. Chastity and celibacy.
T300. Chastity and celibacy.
T300. Chastity and celibacy.
T300. Chastity and celibacy.
T300. Chastity and celibacy.
T300. Chastity and celibacy.
T300. Chastity and celibacy.
T300. Chastity and celibacy.
T300. Chastity and celibacy.
T300. Chastity and celibacy.
T300. Chastity and celibacy.
T301. Sacrifice of virginity.
T302. Methods of ascetics.
T310. Celibacy and continence.
T310. Celibacy and continence.
T310. Celibacy and continence.
T310. Celibacy and continence.
T310.1. Ceremonial continence.
T310.1.1. "Night of Sabbath" (Friday night) only devoted to conjugal pleasures.
T311. Woman averse to marriage. (Cf. T321.1, T327.3.)
T311.0.1. Woman's aversion to marriage motivated through a dream.
T311.0.1. Woman's aversion to marriage motivated through a dream.
T311.1.
T311.1.
T311.1.
T311.2. Woman prefers to remain chaste rather than keep an impotent husband. (Cf. T271.1.)
T311.2.1. Girl commits suicide rather than marry man she does not love.
T311.3. Girl remains a virgin after both her suitors are killed in battle.
T311.4. Maiden queen prefers to fight instead of marrying, ---- but is at last conquered and married.
T312. Saint's daughter dies when wooed.
T312.1. Woman dies when spoiled of her sanctity.
T313. Ravished girl's virginity restored by Virgin Mary.
T313.1. Ravished girl's virginity restored by saint.
T313.1.1. Pregnant nun's virginity restored through power of saint.
T314. Father kills daughter lest she become prostitute.
T314.1. Father kills daughter lest she become the property of a tyrant.
T315. Continence in marriage.
T315.1. Marital continence by mutual agreement.
T315.2. The continent husband. (Cf. T271.)
T315.2.1. The audacious water and the continent husband. ---- A woman with a continent husband (lover) splashes water on her thighs as she crosses a stream and then reproves it for being bolder than her husband. She thus calls attention to her situation.
T315.2.1. The audacious water and the continent husband. ---- A woman with a continent husband (lover) splashes water on her thighs as she crosses a stream and then reproves it for being bolder than her husband. She thus calls attention to her situation.
T315.2.2. Wife reproves continent husband by showing conduct of cock and hens.
T315.2.2.1. Wife reforms continent husband by having walls of bedroom painted with erotic scenes.
T315.3. Woman continent in two marriages to become a nun.
T317. The repression of lust. (Cf. D1356.)
T317.1. Repression of lust through sitting in water.
T317.2. Repression of lust through prayer.
T317.3. Repression of lust through preaching.
T317.4. Repression of lust through fasting.
T317.5. Man and woman in chaste love for twenty-five years.
T317.6. Monk finds that only abuse and cruel treatment from his fellow monks can conquer his lust.
T318. Wife proves her faithfulness. ---- Had substituted for husband's mistress. Proves legitimacy of her child by producing tokens and by child's missing toe (like her husband's four-toed foot).
T318. Wife proves her faithfulness. ---- Had substituted for husband's mistress. Proves legitimacy of her child by producing tokens and by child's missing toe (like her husband's four-toed foot).
T320. Escape from undesired lover.
T320. Escape from undesired lover.
T320. Escape from undesired lover.
T320. Escape from undesired lover.
T320. Escape from undesired lover.
T320. Escape from undesired lover.
T320. Escape from undesired lover.
T320. Escape from undesired lover.
T320. Escape from undesired lover.
T320.1. Oft-proved fidelity. ---- Repeated attempts to seduce innocent woman. She escapes them all. *Types 881, 882, 883AB, 888, 892.
T320.1. Oft-proved fidelity. ---- Repeated attempts to seduce innocent woman. She escapes them all. *Types 881, 882, 883AB, 888, 892.
T320.1.1. Virginity saved in spite of torture. ---- Undesired suitors give up task.
T320.2. Girl kills man who threatens her virtue.
T320.2.1. Woman escaping from slavery kills man who would ravish her.
T320.3. Bride puts to flight man who attempts to ravish her.
T320.3.1. Widow dons late husband's armor to put would-be ravisher to flight.
T320.4. Wife escapes lust of king by shaming him.
T320.4. Wife escapes lust of king by shaming him.
T320.4.1. Woman escapes king's lust by inducing bad breath.
T320.5. Girl gives up wealth and flees to escape lecherous emperor.
T320.6. Wife sets fire to house to escape undesired lover.
T321. Escape from undesired lover by miracle.
T321.1. Maid pledged to celibacy is given, at her prayer, a beard.
T321.2. Girl named Mary has virginity spared by knight who has bought her. ---- The Virgin appears to her.
T321.3. Girl's virginity spared by knight when he sees her surrounded by the Virgin and her train. ---- In her straits the girl has prayed for help.
T321.4. Girl prays to Virgin to spare her virginity. ---- Two soldiers quarrel over possessing her. Captain slays her, thus "saving" her.
T321.5. Magic sickness (discomfort) prevents lover from raping woman.
T321.6. In answer to maiden's prayer saint changes boat's course and guides it to another place.
T322. Girl strikes man who tries to kiss her.
T322.1. Woman kicks lecherous monk down the stairs.
T322.2. Princess threatens to kill amorous king.
T322.3. Undesired lover drugged and carried out.
T322.4. Girl pleads vow of chastity to repel lover.
T322.4. Girl pleads vow of chastity to repel lover.
T323. Escape from undesired lover by strategy.
T323.1. Princess escapes from undesired lover by fleeing disguised as a bishop.
T323.1. Princess escapes from undesired lover by fleeing disguised as a bishop.
T323.1. Princess escapes from undesired lover by fleeing disguised as a bishop.
T323.2. Princess evades unwelcome lover by putting on foul-smelling skin-coat.
T324. Girl's virginity saved by the kindness of an emissary. ---- Makes the lord believe she is a relative.
T325. Chaste woman resists advances of a conqueror.
T325.1. Chaste woman promises conqueror drug of invulnerability. ---- Has him try it on her. Cuts her head off.
T326. Suicide to save virginity.
T326.1. Girls drown selves to save their virginity.
T326.2. Man is killed defending sweetheart's honor. ---- She kills herself.
T326.3. Martyrdom to preserve virginity.
T327. Mutilation to repel lover. (Cf. S160, T333.)
T327.1. Maiden sends to her lecherous lover (brother) her eyes (hands, breasts) which he has admired. Type 706.
T327.2. Woman successfully prays for disease to repel lover.
T327.3. Saint plucks out her eye when urged to marry.
T327.4. Maidens befoul selves with blood to escape rape.
T327.5. Woman raises sores on her body to preserve chastity.
T327.6. Princess takes on loathsome disguise to avoid unwelcome demon-lover.
T327.7. Girl escapes from undesired lover by cutting off her plaits of hair.
T328. Girl lives in sepulchre to preserve chastity.
T330. Anchorites under temptation.
T330. Anchorites under temptation.
T330. Anchorites under temptation.
T330. Anchorites under temptation.
T331. Man unsuccessfully tempted by woman. ---- (St. Anthony.)
T331. Man unsuccessfully tempted by woman. ---- (St. Anthony.)
T331. Man unsuccessfully tempted by woman. ---- (St. Anthony.)
T331. Man unsuccessfully tempted by woman. ---- (St. Anthony.)
T331. Man unsuccessfully tempted by woman. ---- (St. Anthony.)
T331. Man unsuccessfully tempted by woman. ---- (St. Anthony.)
T331.1. Monk unsuccessfully tempted in nunnery.
T331.2. Knight unsuccessfully tempted by host's wife.
T331.3. Woman masks as man to deceive anchorite.
T331.4. No place secret enough for fornication. ---- Monk thus repels temptress.
T331.4. No place secret enough for fornication. ---- Monk thus repels temptress.
T331.5. Anchorite saved by a miracle. ---- When he is about to give in to temptation a dove flies out of his mouth. On repenting the dove re-enters his mouth.
T331.6. Saint flogs woman who tempts him.
T331.6. Saint flogs woman who tempts him.
T331.7. Saint sleeps with maidens without sinning. ---- Another saint, who doubts fact, undergoes same test and perceives its effacy.
T331.8. Monk unsuccessfully tempted by woman he formerly loved.
T331.9. Monk yells "thief" to repel temptress. -- When she seeks him in his bed he screams. He says she steals his most valuable possession, virtue.
T332. Man tempted by fiend in woman's shape. ---- (Or woman by fiend in man's shape.)
T332. Man tempted by fiend in woman's shape. ---- (Or woman by fiend in man's shape.)
T332. Man tempted by fiend in woman's shape. ---- (Or woman by fiend in man's shape.)
T332. Man tempted by fiend in woman's shape. ---- (Or woman by fiend in man's shape.)
T332.1. Woman sent by deity to tempt self-righteous anchorite.
T333. Man mutilates himself to remove temptation.
T333. Man mutilates himself to remove temptation.
T333. Man mutilates himself to remove temptation.
T333.1. Tempted man bites out his tongue and spits it in temptress's face.
T333.2. Tempted man burns off his fingers. ---- Frightens his temptress.
T333.3. Man disfigures his face to remove temptation.
T333.3.1. Tempted rabbi tears out his eyes to escape temptation.
T333.4. Tempted holy man mutilates genitals.
T333.5. Hero cuts off head and wraps it in napkin so he will not be tempted by sight of virgins.
T334. Monk cures himself of desire for dead sweetheart. ---- He digs up her remains.
T334.1. Monk goes into desert to avoid temptation of women, the prime source of sin.
T335. Saint exposes self to temptation but preserves chastity. ---- Thus insures self greater reward in Heaven.
T336. Sight or touch of woman as source of sin.
T336.1. Woman's girdle as source of sin.
T336.2. Woman's voice as source of sin.
T337. Woman wagers that she can seduce anchorite.
T337. Woman wagers that she can seduce anchorite.
T337.1. Saint's enemy, wishing to cause saint to violate his oath never to "commit folly and utter lie," induces his daughter to tempt saint. ---- Saint perceives trick and avoids sin.
T338. Virtuous man seduced by woman.
T338.1. Ascetic successfully tempted: kills son born in consequence.
T350. Chaste sleeping together.
T350. Chaste sleeping together.
T350. Chaste sleeping together.
T351. Sword of chastity. ---- A two-edged sword is laid between the couple sleeping together. *Type 303.
T351.1. Bed-cover of chastity. ---- Similar to sword of chastity.
T352. Boy sleeps between couple to safeguard their virtue.
T353. Object set between beds of couple sleeping in same room.
T354. Chaste sleeping together to torment woman. ---- Man remains utterly impassive.
T355. Chaste sleeping together with six sisters-in-law one by one.
T356. Young man sleeps on girl's mat without touching her to signify his desire.
T360. Chastity and celibacy -- miscellaneous.
T362. Nun refuses to look at man.
T362.1. Nun so opposed to seeing men that she refuses to see St. Martin.
T371. The boy who had never seen a woman: the Satans. ---- When he sees a girl and asks his father what it is, the father tells him it is Satan. Asked what he most likes he says, "The Satans." *Type 1678.
T371. The boy who had never seen a woman: the Satans. ---- When he sees a girl and asks his father what it is, the father tells him it is Satan. Asked what he most likes he says, "The Satans." *Type 1678.
T371. The boy who had never seen a woman: the Satans. ---- When he sees a girl and asks his father what it is, the father tells him it is Satan. Asked what he most likes he says, "The Satans." *Type 1678.
T371.1. Boy is denied sight of all women except his mother and his nurse until he is eighteen. ---- He falls in love with the first woman who is more attractive than his mother.
T372. Adulterous love changed into a chaste one.
T373. Heavy chastity belt imposed on wife.
T376. Young man betrothed to statue. ---- Man puts marriage ring on finger of statue of Venus (Virgin Mary). She afterwards forbids him the embraces of an earthly bride.
T376.1. Man leaves earthly bride for service of Virgin.
T381. Imprisoned virgin to prevent knowledge of men (marriage, impregnation). ---- Usually kept in a tower.
T381. Imprisoned virgin to prevent knowledge of men (marriage, impregnation). ---- Usually kept in a tower.
T381. Imprisoned virgin to prevent knowledge of men (marriage, impregnation). ---- Usually kept in a tower.
T381. Imprisoned virgin to prevent knowledge of men (marriage, impregnation). ---- Usually kept in a tower.
T381. Imprisoned virgin to prevent knowledge of men (marriage, impregnation). ---- Usually kept in a tower.
T381. Imprisoned virgin to prevent knowledge of men (marriage, impregnation). ---- Usually kept in a tower.
T381. Imprisoned virgin to prevent knowledge of men (marriage, impregnation). ---- Usually kept in a tower.
T381. Imprisoned virgin to prevent knowledge of men (marriage, impregnation). ---- Usually kept in a tower.
T381.0.1. Girl intended for marriage with king cloistered.
T381.0.2. Wife imprisoned in tower (house) to preserve chastity.
T381.1. Guarded maiden first seen by hero in church. *Type 516.
T381.1.1. Guarded maiden first seen by hero in otherworld.
T382. Attempt to keep wife chaste by carrying her in a box. ---- In spite of all precautions she meets men.
T382. Attempt to keep wife chaste by carrying her in a box. ---- In spite of all precautions she meets men.
T383. Other futile attempts to keep wife chaste.
T386. Message of chastity: uncooked meat left behind. ---- Man conducting a woman leaves uncooked meat behind each night of the journey as a sign to the husband following that she has not been touched.
T400--T499 Illicit sexual relations.
T400. Illicit sexual relations.
T400. Illicit sexual relations.
T400. Illicit sexual relations.
T400. Illicit sexual relations.
T401. Virgin Mary as protectress of illicit lovers.
T401. Virgin Mary as protectress of illicit lovers.
T401. Virgin Mary as protectress of illicit lovers.
T401.1. Pregnant abbess secretly delivered of her child by Virgin Mary.
T410. Incest.
T410. Incest.
T410. Incest.
T410. Incest.
T410. Incest.
T410. Incest.
T410. Incest.
T410. Incest.
T410. Incest.
T410. Incest.
T410. Incest.
T410.1. Master discovers that slave girl he wants to marry is a near relative. Type 938.
T411. Father-daughter incest.
T411. Father-daughter incest.
T411. Father-daughter incest.
T411.1. Lecherous father. ---- Unnatural father wants to marry his daughter. (Manekine.) *Types 510B, 706.
T411.1. Lecherous father. ---- Unnatural father wants to marry his daughter. (Manekine.) *Types 510B, 706.
T411.1.1. Father by trickery secures priest's advice to marry his own daughter. ---- If a man raise a lamb, still he eat it himself or let another eat it?
T411.1.2. Father feigning death returns in disguise and seduces daughter.
T411.1.2. Father feigning death returns in disguise and seduces daughter.
T411.2. Girl got with child by intoxicated father.
T411.2.1. Daughters seduce drunken father.
T412. Mother-son incest. *Types 931, 833.
T412. Mother-son incest. *Types 931, 833.
T412. Mother-son incest. *Types 931, 833.
T412. Mother-son incest. *Types 931, 833.
T412. Mother-son incest. *Types 931, 833.
T412. Mother-son incest. *Types 931, 833.
T412. Mother-son incest. *Types 931, 833.
T412. Mother-son incest. *Types 931, 833.
T412.1. Mother guilty of incest with son forgiven by Pope (Virgin Mary).
T412.2. Incognito son tempts mother to see whether all women are wicked.
T412.3. Mother guilty of incest with son whose honor she is testing.
T412.4. Boy courts his mother, is driven off by father.
T415. Brother-sister incest. *Type 933.
T415. Brother-sister incest. *Type 933.
T415. Brother-sister incest. *Type 933.
T415. Brother-sister incest. *Type 933.
T415. Brother-sister incest. *Type 933.
T415. Brother-sister incest. *Type 933.
T415. Brother-sister incest. *Type 933.
T415. Brother-sister incest. *Type 933.
T415. Brother-sister incest. *Type 933.
T415. Brother-sister incest. *Type 933.
T415.1. Lecherous brother. ---- Wants to seduce (marry) his sister.
T415.2. Brother repels incestuous sister.
T415.3. Lovers reared as brother and sister learn to their joy that they are not related.
T415.4. Two lovers give each other up when they learn that they are brother and sister.
T415.5. Brother-sister marriage.
T415.5. Brother-sister marriage.
T415.6. Suicide to prevent brother-sister marriage.
T415.7. When boy cannot have his sister for a wife he asks for one of her eyes and ears instead.
T417. Son-in-law seduces mother-in-law.
T417.1. Mother-in-law seduces son-in-law.
T418. Lustful stepmother.
T418.1. Lustful stepfather.
T421. Man marries his aunt (mother's sister).
T423. Youth attempts to seduce his grandmother.
T425. Brother-in-law seduces (seeks to seduce) sister-in-law.
T450. Prostitution and concubinage.
T450. Prostitution and concubinage.
T450. Prostitution and concubinage.
T450. Prostitution and concubinage.
T450. Prostitution and concubinage.
T450. Prostitution and concubinage.
T450. Prostitution and concubinage.
T450. Prostitution and concubinage.
T450. Prostitution and concubinage.
T450.1. Wife born to be prostitute. ---- Husband unable to change her ways, submits to them.
T450.2. Woman disappointed in love threatens to become prostitute.
T450.3. Prostitution to avoid starvation.
T450.4. Prostitute has favorite lover.
T451. Devil causes girl to become prostitute. ---- Destroys the girl's family and begets on her a boy.
T452. Bawds. ---- Professional go-betweens.
T452.1. Mother acts as procuress of bedmate for her son.
T453. Getting advice from a woman in bed.
T453. Getting advice from a woman in bed.
T453. Getting advice from a woman in bed.
T453. Getting advice from a woman in bed.
T453.1. Hero learns feats of arms through gratifying woman's lust.
T453.2. Prostitute gets advice from customer.
T455. Woman sells favors for particular purpose.
T455. Woman sells favors for particular purpose.
T455. Woman sells favors for particular purpose.
T455. Woman sells favors for particular purpose.
T455. Woman sells favors for particular purpose.
T455. Woman sells favors for particular purpose.
T455. Woman sells favors for particular purpose.
T455. Woman sells favors for particular purpose.
T455.1. Woman sells favors to obtain a jewel.
T455.1.1. Woman sells favors to obtain many jewels.
T455.2. Woman sacrifices her honor to free her husband (brother) from prison.
T455.2. Woman sacrifices her honor to free her husband (brother) from prison.
T455.2.1. Woman commits adultery to obtain aid for husband in battle.
T455.3. Woman sells favors for beautiful clothes.
T455.3.1. Women sells favors for new shoes. (Cf. K1357. Type 1731.)
T455.4. Parents urge girl to trade her favors for truce with hostile warrior.
T455.5. Woman gives favors to pay for help across river.
T455.6. Woman sells favors for large sum of money (property).
T455.7. Princess gives herself to Turks of her own accord in order to save her people.
T456. Bed-partner to receive payment from first man she meets in the morning. ---- It so happens: she marries the man and he makes her wealthy.
T456. Bed-partner to receive payment from first man she meets in the morning. ---- It so happens: she marries the man and he makes her wealthy.
T456. Bed-partner to receive payment from first man she meets in the morning. ---- It so happens: she marries the man and he makes her wealthy.
T456.1. Girl dares not receive gift from a man as it may be supposed to be payment for her favors.
T457. Sacred prostitution.
T458. Woman enjoys the ravishings of the enemy.
T460. Sexual perversions.
T461. Person enamored of an object.
T461.1. Woman enamored of a river.
T461.2. Women cohabit with magic house pillars.
T461.3. Tree as wife.
T462. Lesbian love.
T462.1. Lesbian love: women give birth to monsters as result.
T462.1. Lesbian love: women give birth to monsters as result.
T463. Homosexual love (male).
T463. Homosexual love (male).
T463. Homosexual love (male).
T465. Bestiality. ---- Intercourse of a human being and an animal.
T465. Bestiality. ---- Intercourse of a human being and an animal.
T465. Bestiality. ---- Intercourse of a human being and an animal.
T465.1. Sheep born with human head as a result of bestiality.
T465.2. Foal born of Loki after dealing with mythical stallion.
T465.3. Homocentaurus born as a result of bestiality.
T465.4. Children are spotted like leopards as result of bestiality.
T465.5. Pig born with head like that of man as a result of bestiality.
T466. Necrophilism: sexual intercourse with dead human body.
T466. Necrophilism: sexual intercourse with dead human body.
T467. The amorous bite.
T470. Illicit sexual relations -- miscellaneous motifs.
T471. Rape.
T471. Rape.
T471. Rape.
T471. Rape.
T471. Rape.
T471.0.1. Fines imposed for rape.
T471.1. Man unwittingly ravishes his own sister. (Cf. N365.3.)
T471.2. Wild man as ravisher of women. (Cf. F567.)
T471.3. Husband sends wife poison to avoid having her ravished by the enemy.
T475. Unknown (clandestine) paramour.
T475. Unknown (clandestine) paramour.
T475. Unknown (clandestine) paramour.
T475. Unknown (clandestine) paramour.
T475. Unknown (clandestine) paramour.
T475.1. Unknown paramour discovered by string clue.
T475.2. Hero lies by princess in magic sleep and begets child.
T475.2. Hero lies by princess in magic sleep and begets child.
T475.2.1. Intercourse with sleeping girl.
T476. Incognito mistress. ---- King's mistress secretly becomes hero's without revealing identity.
T481. Adultery.
T481. Adultery.
T481. Adultery.
T481. Adultery.
T481. Adultery.
T481. Adultery.
T481. Adultery.
T481. Adultery.
T481. Adultery.
T481. Adultery.
T481. Adultery.
T481. Adultery.
T481. Adultery.
T481. Adultery.
T481. Adultery.
T481.1. Adulteress roughly treated by her lover.
T481.2. Queen's illicit passion for diseased man.
T481.2.1. Queen commits adultery with low-born man.
T481.3. Adulteress sells self to devil for money.
T481.4. Wife seduces husband's servant (pupil).
T481.5. King takes subject's wife while her husband is sent away.
T481.6. Queen begets son with duke while the king is in war.
T481.7. Woman advises husband to kill guest, else she will make him chase husband and marry her instead.
T482. Day husband: night husband. ---- Woman has two husbands: juggler at home only at night, robber only in day. They do not know about each other. (Similarly, day wife: night wife.)
T484. Maidservant given to lover's companion as bed-partner. (Cf. T281.)
T485. Fruit-picking time used for sexual promiscuity.
T491. Man has son not his wife's; wife has a daughter not her husband's. ---- Children become lovers.
T492. Queen makes all men who come to serve her copulate with her.
T494. Black nipples of girl's breasts reveal her loss of virginity.
T500--T599 Conception and birth.
T500. Conception and birth.
T500. Conception and birth.
T500. Conception and birth.
T500. Conception and birth.
T500. Conception and birth.
T500. Conception and birth.
T500. Conception and birth.
T500. Conception and birth.
T500. Conception and birth.
T500. Conception and birth.
T500. Conception and birth.
T500. Conception and birth.
T500. Conception and birth.
T500. Conception and birth.
T500. Conception and birth.
T500. Conception and birth.
T500. Conception and birth.
T510. Miraculous conception. *Type 516.
T510. Miraculous conception. *Type 516.
T510. Miraculous conception. *Type 516.
T510. Miraculous conception. *Type 516.
T511. Conception from eating.
T511. Conception from eating.
T511. Conception from eating.
T511. Conception from eating.
T511. Conception from eating.
T511.0.1. Queen and maidservant conceive from eating same food. ---- Their sons are like brothers. (Cf. P311.4.)
T511.1. Conception from eating a fruit. (Cf. F611.1.8. *Type 301.)
T511.1.1. Conception from eating apple. *Type 708.
T511.1.1. Conception from eating apple. *Type 708.
T511.1.2. Conception from eating berry.
T511.1.3. Conception from eating mango.
T511.1.4. Conception from eating orange.
T511.1.5. Conception from eating lemon.
T511.1.6. Conception from eating a peach.
T511.2. Conception from eating plant.
T511.2.0.1. Conception from eating root.
T511.2.0.2. Conception from eating leaves.
T511.2.1. Conception from eating mandrake. (Cf. D965.1.)
T511.2.2. Conception from eating watercress.
T511.3. Conception from eating vegetable.
T511.3.1. Conception from eating peppercorn.
T511.3.2. Conception from eating spinach.
T511.4. Conception from eating flower.
T511.4.1. Conception from eating rose. ---- Red rose brings boy, white rose a girl.
T511.5. Conception from eating animal.
T511.5.1. Conception from eating fish. *Type 301, 705.
T511.5.2. Conception from swallowing worm (in drink of water).
T511.5.2. Conception from swallowing worm (in drink of water).
T511.5.3. Conception from eating louse.
T511.5.4. Conception from eating bird.
T511.6. Conception from eating parts of human being.
T511.6.1. Conception from eating woman's heart.
T511.6.2. Conception from eating finger-bones.
T511.7. Conception from eating food.
T511.7.1. Conception after eating honey given by lover.
T511.7.2. Pregnancy from eating an egg.
T511.7.3. Conception from eating meat.
T511.8. Conception from eating -- miscellaneous.
T511.8.1. Conception from swallowing a stone.
T511.8.2. Conception from eating medicines.
T511.8.3. Conception from eating mess of fairy pottage.
T511.8.4. Conception from eating grain (seed).
T511.8.5. Woman impregnated after accidentally partaking of crane's dung.
T511.8.6. Conception from swallowing a pearl.
T512. Conception from drinking.
T512.1. Conception from drinking elixir from goat's horns.
T512.2. Conception from drinking urine.
T512.2.1. Child develops from man's urine.
T512.3. Conception from drinking water.
T512.3.1. Conception from drinking holy water. (Cf. D1242.1.2.)
T512.4. Conception from drinking saint's tears.
T512.5. Impregnation from licking spittle.
T512.6. Conception from drinking sperm. (Cf. T531.1.)
T512.7. Conception from drinking dew.
T513. Conception from wish. (Cf. T548.1. *Types 675, 708.)
T513.1. Conception through another's wish.
T513.1.1. Impregnation by magician's power.
T514. Conception after reciprocal desire for each other.
T514.1. Conception after anchorite blesses woman in love with him.
T515. Impregnation through glance.
T515.1. Impregnation through lustful glance.
T516. Conception through dream. *Type 650.
T517. Conception from extraordinary intercourse.
T517.1. Conception from hand or foot.
T517.2. Conception through mother's side. (Cf. T584.1.)
T517.3. Conception through ear.
T518. Conception from divine impregnation.
T521. Conception from sunlight.
T521. Conception from sunlight.
T521. Conception from sunlight.
T521. Conception from sunlight.
T521.1. Conception from moonlight.
T521.2. Conception from rainbow.
T521.3. Conception from rays of a dragon.
T522. Conception from falling rain.
T523. Conception from bathing. (Cf. D1788.)
T524. Conception from wind. (Cf. A715.2, F611.1.9.)
T525. Conception from falling star.
T525.1. Impregnation by star.
T525.2. Impregnation by a comet.
T526. Conception because of prayer.
T527. Magic impregnation by use of charm (amulet).
T528. Impregnation by thunder (lightning).
T531. Conception from casual contact with man.
T531.1. Conception from having licked semen-stained loincloth. (Cf. T512.6.)
T532. Conception from other contacts.
T532.1. Conception from contact with magic object.
T532.1.1. Conception from plucking flower. (Cf. C515.)
T532.1.1.1. Conception from smelling flower.
T532.1.2. Conception from embracing magic tree.
T532.1.2.1. Conception from embracing holy image.
T532.1.3. Impregnation by leaf of lettuce.
T532.1.4. Conception by smell of cooked dragon heart.
T532.1.4.1. Conception after smelling ground bonedust.
T532.2. Conception from stepping on an animal.
T532.3. Conception from fruit thrown against breast.
T532.3.1. Conception from flowers hidden in breast.
T532.4. Cow touched by arrow becomes pregnant.
T532.5. Conception from putting on another's girdle.
T532.5.1. Conception from touching another's garment.
T532.6. Conception from putting ball into bosom.
T532.7. Woman becomes pregnant after eagle sits on her head.
T532.8. Impregnation by shadow of Bhimsen.
T532.8.1. Conception after shadow of man has fallen on bathing girl.
T532.9. Miraculous conception from god's bow.
T532.10. Conception from hiss of cobra.
T533. Conception from spittle. (Cf. T541.8.2.)
T534. Conception from blood. (Cf. T541.1, T563.2.)
T535. Conception from fire. (Cf. F611.1.10.)
T535.1. Conception from heat of fire.
T536. Conception from feathers falling on woman.
T537. Conception from scarification. ---- Pigeons scarify woman on loins.
T538. Unusual conception in old age.
T539. Miraculous conception -- miscellaneous.
T539.1. Hero enters womb of sleeping woman and is reborn.
T539.2. Conception by a cry.
T539.3. Conception from intercourse with demon.
T539.3. Conception from intercourse with demon.
T539.3. Conception from intercourse with demon.
T539.3. Conception from intercourse with demon.
T539.4. Heifers covered by supernatural bull conceive miraculously.
T539.5. Magic impregnation from faraway husband.
T540. Miraculous birth.
T540. Miraculous birth.
T540. Miraculous birth.
T540. Miraculous birth.
T540. Miraculous birth.
T540. Miraculous birth.
T540.1. Supernatural birth of saints.
T540.1. Supernatural birth of saints.
T541. Birth from unusual part of person's body.
T541.1. Birth from blood.
T541.1.1. Birth from blood-clot.
T541.1.1.1. Boy created by saint from blood-clot.
T541.2. Birth from wound or abscess. *Type 705.
T541.2.1. Birth from wound or abscess on body of father.
T541.2.1.1. Child born of splinter in hand (foot).
T541.3. Birth from tears.
T541.4. Birth from person's head.
T541.4.1. Birth from mouth.
T541.5. Birth from man's thigh.
T541.5.1. Birth from woman's thigh.
T541.6. Birth from an arm.
T541.7. Birth from an eye.
T541.8. Birth from secretions of the body.
T541.8.1. Birth from excrement.
T541.8.2. Birth from spittle. (Cf. T533.)
T541.8.3. Birth from mucus from the nose.
T541.8.3.1. Child born through nose.
T541.9. Birth from contact of severed male genitals with ground.
T541.10. Birth from contact of severed male genitals with ground.
T541.11. Birth from lotus issuing from a god's navel.
T541.12. Birth from nine mothers. (Cf. A112.5.)
T541.13. Birth from man's shoulder.
T541.14. Birth through the ear.
T541.15. Birth through the back.
T541.16. Birth from knee.
T542. Birth of human being from an egg. (Cf. F611.1.11. *Type 650.)
T542.1. Shepherdess born of red and blue egg.
T543. Birth from plant.
T543.0.1. Twig, born of a woman, is planted and becomes a girl. (Cf. T555.)
T543.1. Birth from a tree.
T543.2. Birth from flower.
T543.2.1. Birth from lotus.
T543.3. Birth from fruit.
T543.3.1. Birth from orange.
T543.4. Birth from fungus.
T543.5. Birth from gourd.
T543.6. Birth from grass (grain).
T543.6.1. Birth from wheat.
T543.7. Birth from vegetable.
T544. Birth from mineral.
T544.1. Birth from rock.
T544.2. Boy forged from iron. (Cf. F611.1.12. *Type 540.)
T545. Birth from ground.
T546. Birth from water.
T546.1. Birth from sea-foam.
T546.1. Birth from sea-foam.
T546.1. Birth from sea-foam.
T546.2. Birth from hailstone.
T547. Birth from virgin.
T548. Birth obtained through magic or prayer.
T548. Birth obtained through magic or prayer.
T548.1. Child born in answer to prayer.
T548.1. Child born in answer to prayer.
T548.1. Child born in answer to prayer.
T548.1. Child born in answer to prayer.
T548.1. Child born in answer to prayer.
T548.1. Child born in answer to prayer.
T548.1. Child born in answer to prayer.
T548.1.1. Hateful or lovely child to be born first? ---- Childless parents' prayer answered: they are to have two children, one hateful, one lovely. Choice as to which is to come first.
T548.2. Magic rites for obtaining a child. *Type 711.
T548.3. Magic elixir to procure a child.
T548.4. Charity rewarded by birth of child.
T549. Miraculous birth -- miscellaneous.
T549.1. Vegetable comes to life at woman's prayer.
T549.2. Thrown cane becomes child.
T549.3. Boy born from fish's belly.
T549.3.1. Fish when slit open gives up baby boy.
T549.4. Child born from miscarried fetus.
T549.4.1. Child born from placenta.
T550. Monstrous births. *Types 425, 708.
T550. Monstrous births. *Types 425, 708.
T550. Monstrous births. *Types 425, 708.
T550. Monstrous births. *Types 425, 708.
T550. Monstrous births. *Types 425, 708.
T550. Monstrous births. *Types 425, 708.
T550. Monstrous births. *Types 425, 708.
T550. Monstrous births. *Types 425, 708.
T550. Monstrous births. *Types 425, 708.
T550. Monstrous births. *Types 425, 708.
T550. Monstrous births. *Types 425, 708.
T550.1. Monster child helps mother. *Type 708.
T550.2. Abnormally born child has unusual powers.
T550.3. Misshapen child from brother-sister incest. (Cf. T415.)
T550.4. Monstrous birth because mother sees horrible sight.
T550.5. Blemished children born of monstrous parent.
T550.6. Only half a son is born by queen who ate merely half of mango. (Cf. F525, T589.2.)
T550.7. Poor woman gives birth to child who has no body (merely head or skull).
T551. Child with extraordinary members (limbs).
T551.1. Child born without limbs.
T551.1.1. Child born as formless lump of flesh.
T551.2. Child born with two heads. (Cf. F551.0.2.1.)
T551.3. Child born with animal head. Type 711.
T551.3.1. Child with dog's head.
T551.3.2. Child with hawk's head.
T551.3.3. Monstrous birth: child with donkey's head.
T551.3.4. Child with cow's head.
T551.3.4.1. Person born with cow's ears. (Cf. F511.2.2.)
T551.3.4.2. Child born with horns.
T551.4. Boy born with one side flesh and one iron.
T551.4. Boy born with one side flesh and one iron.
T551.4.1. Child born beautiful on one side, hairy on other.
T551.5. Child born half man, half fish.
T551.6. Child born without mouth.
T551.7. Child born with one ear.
T551.8. Child born with caul (containing serpent).
T551.9. Child born with claws as result of curse by dying peddler murdered by its parents.
T551.10. Monstrous birth -- nine faces, nine arms, nine feet.
T551.11. Birth of one-eyed child. (Cf. F512.1.)
T551.12. Child born with one leg.
T551.13. Child born hairy.
T551.13.1. Child born with long hair.
T551.13.2. Child born with long beard.
T551.14. Child with all of its organs out of place.
T551.15. Child born blood-red.
T552. Child born bearing an object.
T552.1. Girl born with red string around neck.
T552.2. Child born with snake around neck.
T552.2.1. Child born bearing lizard in each hand.
T552.2.2. Child born holding worm (in each hand).
T552.3. Child born carrying knife and calabash.
T552.4. Child born carrying handful of hair.
T552.5. Child born with complete armor.
T552.5.1. Child born wearing helmet.
T552.5.2. Child born with magic iron bow.
T552.5.3. Child born with knife and shield.
T552.6. Child born carrying a stone.
T552.7. Child born wearing jewel.
T552.8. Daughter born with a feathered parka.
T553. Thumbling born as result of hasty wish of parents. ---- They wish for a child, no matter how small he may be. *Type 700.
T553. Thumbling born as result of hasty wish of parents. ---- They wish for a child, no matter how small he may be. *Type 700.
T553. Thumbling born as result of hasty wish of parents. ---- They wish for a child, no matter how small he may be. *Type 700.
T553. Thumbling born as result of hasty wish of parents. ---- They wish for a child, no matter how small he may be. *Type 700.
T554. Woman gives birth to animal. Type 441.
T554. Woman gives birth to animal. Type 441.
T554. Woman gives birth to animal. Type 441.
T554. Woman gives birth to animal. Type 441.
T554.0.1. Woman transformed to animal bears animal. (Cf. T578.2.)
T554.1. Tiger, spirit, and man sons of one mother.
T554.2. Woman bears dog.
T554.3. Woman bears crane.
T554.4. Woman bears monkey.
T554.5. Woman bears tortoise (turtle).
T554.6. Woman bears goat.
T554.7. Woman gives birth to a snake.
T554.8. Woman bears frog.
T554.8.1. Woman gives birth to toad.
T554.9. Woman bears three pigs.
T554.10. Woman gives birth to a bird.
T554.11. Supernaturally impregnated woman gives birth to dragon.
T555. Woman gives birth to a plant. (Cf. T543.0.1.)
T555.1. Woman gives birth to a fruit. ---- Can transform itself to girl.
T555.1. Woman gives birth to a fruit. ---- Can transform itself to girl.
T555.1.1. Woman gives birth to pumpkin.
T555.2. Queen gives birth to a gourd.
T556. Woman gives birth to a demon. Type 433B.
T556. Woman gives birth to a demon. Type 433B.
T557. Child born with viper in heart (body).
T561. Child born in a jug (jar.)
T561.1. Child born in conch shell.
T561.2. Child born in a furnace.
T561.3. Child born in a bag.
T561.4. Child born in pot.
T562. White woman bears black child.
T563. Birthmarks.
T563.1. Child of three fathers born with three stripes.
T563.2. Child formed of clot of gore has red birthmark. (Cf. T541.1.1.)
T563.3. Child born with figure of serpent on his body.
T563.4. Tattoo on newly born baby's back telling who was his former incarnation.
T565. Woman lays an egg. (Cf. T542.)
T566. Human son of animal parents.
T569. Monstrous births -- miscellaneous.
T569.1. Queen delivered of a piece of flesh; ---- abandoned and saved, it gradually separates into forms of boy and girl.
T569.2. Woman gives birth to grinding-stone.
T570. Pregnancy.
T570. Pregnancy.
T571. Unreasonable demands of pregnant women.
T571. Unreasonable demands of pregnant women.
T571. Unreasonable demands of pregnant women.
T571. Unreasonable demands of pregnant women.
T572. Prevention of childbirth.
T572. Prevention of childbirth.
T572.1. Magic prevention of childbirth. *Type 755.
T572.1.1. Mother sits on stone to prevent premature birth.
T572.2. Abortion.
T572.2.1. Abortion by vomiting up embryo.
T572.2.2. Abortion by eating.
T572.2.3. Hero an abortion thrown into the bushes.
T572.2.3. Hero an abortion thrown into the bushes.
T572.2.4. Abortion by fasting.
T572.2.5. Abortion caused by fear.
T572.2.6. Abortion by long bathing.
T573. Short pregnancy.
T573.0.1. Short pregnancy in animals.
T573.1. Woman conceives and bears same day.
T574. Long pregnancy. ---- Delayed by an enemy who bewitches the mother.
T574. Long pregnancy. ---- Delayed by an enemy who bewitches the mother.
T574.1. Long pregnancy: twelve months.
T574.2. Long pregnancy: seven years.
T575. Child speaks before birth.
T575.1. Child speaks in mother's womb.
T575.1.1. Child in mother's womb reveals crime.
T575.1.1. Child in mother's womb reveals crime.
T575.1.1. Child in mother's womb reveals crime.
T575.1.1.1. Child in mother's womb reveals murder.
T575.1.1.2. Child in mother's womb reveals adultery.
T575.1.1.3. Child in mother's womb reveals unjust judgment.
T575.1.2. Future suicide weeps in mother's womb.
T575.1.3. Twins quarrel before birth in mother's womb.
T575.1.4. Future poet chants spell in mother's womb.
T575.1.5. Children in mothers' wombs praise God at birth of Christ.
T575.1.5.1. Embryos in womb join melody and sing.
T575.1.6. Child in mother's belly guides her.
T575.1.6.1. Unborn child directs his mother on journey.
T575.2. Woman talks to her child before it is conceived.
T575.3. Child speaks from dead mother's womb. (Cf. T584.2.)
T575.4. Child in mother's womb visible from outside.
T576. Prenatal influences.
T577. Fetus exchanged from one woman to another.
T577.1. Male embryo transformed in womb to female.
T578. Pregnant man. *Type 705.
T578. Pregnant man. *Type 705.
T578.1. Child incubated in man's thigh.
T578.2.
T579. Pregnancy -- miscellaneous motifs.
T579.1. Sheath and knife as analogy for mother and unborn child.
T579.2. Girl's blood examined to see if she is pregnant.
T579.3. Seven-year-old girl has child.
T579.3.1. Seven-year-old boy begets child.
T579.4. Mother of saint has healing spittle during pregnancy.
T579.5. Saint performs miracles while yet unborn. (Cf. D1713.)
T579.6. Worm swallowed at conception eats hand of babe before birth. (Cf. T511.5.2.)
T579.7. King demands that his pregnant queen be chained to him.
T579.8. Signs of pregnancy.
T579.8.1. Transparent body of pregnant woman.
T579.8.2. Girl paints face because pregnant.
T579.8.3. Girl betrays pregnancy by dropping milk on brother.
T580. Childbirth.
T580. Childbirth.
T580. Childbirth.
T580. Childbirth.
T580. Childbirth.
T580.1. Jewess must entreat Virgin before she can bear her child.
T581. Place and conditions of childbirth.
T581.1. Birth of child in forest.
T581.2. Child born of woman abandoned in pit.
T581.2. Child born of woman abandoned in pit.
T581.2.1. Child born to an apparently dead mother in her grave.
T581.2.2. Blind wives fall into a pool where they give birth to children.
T581.2.3. Children born in dungeon.
T581.3. Child born in tree.
T581.4. Child born in stable.
T581.5. Child born during snowstorm.
T581.6. Noise of battle precipitates birth.
T581.7. Child born on flagstone.
T581.8. Woman bears twins at end of footrace ---- (with king's horses).
T581.9. Child born on beach.
T581.10. Twins born in tent; mother abducted.
T581.11. Boy is born in a wrapping of fine cloth.
T582. Precautions at childbirth.
T582.1. Avoidance of evil spirits at childbirth.
T582.2. All locks in house to be shot during childbirth.
T582.3. Knots to be untied at childbirth. ---- Particularly knots in the women's clothes.
T582.4. Knife (other sharp instrument) as childbirth precaution.
T583. Accompaniments of childbirth.
T583. Accompaniments of childbirth.
T583. Accompaniments of childbirth.
T583. Accompaniments of childbirth.
T583. Accompaniments of childbirth.
T583. Accompaniments of childbirth.
T583. Accompaniments of childbirth.
T583.1. Couvade. ---- Father goes into confinement at time of childbirth.
T583.1.0.1. Husband goes into seclusion at wife's pregnancy.
T583.1.0.2. Couvade imposed on man during wife's menstruation.
T583.1.1. Pains of woman in childbirth repeated in person of the man.
T583.2. Calamities at birth of hero.
T583.3. King leaves bell with his wife for her to ring so he will know when her child is born.
T584. Parturition.
T584. Parturition.
T584. Parturition.
T584. Parturition.
T584. Parturition.
T584.0.1. Childbirth assisted by magic. (Cf. D1501.2.)
T584.0.2. Husband acts as midwife when no woman is available.
T584.0.3. Birth of holy person painless.
T584.0.4. Childbirth assisted by angel.
T584.0.5. While saint's mother was giving birth to the child, she grasps a stout rod which roots and becomes a sturdy tree.
T584.0.6. Childbirth assisted by sacred stone.
T584.1. Birth through the mother's side.
T584.1. Birth through the mother's side.
T584.1. Birth through the mother's side.
T584.2. Child removed from body of dead mother.
T584.2. Child removed from body of dead mother.
T584.2.1. Child born of dead mother in grave.
T584.2.1.1. Twins freed from dead mother's body as body rots.
T584.3. Cesarean operation upon a woman at childbirth as a custom.
T584.4. Piglings cut from bodies of sows and reared.
T584.5. Extraordinarily long labor at childbirth.
T584.5.1. Prolonged labor: woman has childbirth pains for 100 days but is not delivered.
T584.6. After-birth (placenta) becomes a demon.
T584.7. Hero is born by splitting mother's womb.
T584.8. Child helps mother in severing his navel string.
T585. Precocious infant.
T585. Precocious infant.
T585. Precocious infant.
T585. Precocious infant.
T585. Precocious infant.
T585.1. Child born full (nearly) grown.
T585.1. Child born full (nearly) grown.
T585.1.1. Child stronger than mother on day of birth.
T585.2. Child speaks at birth. (Cf. T575.1.)
T585.2.1. Child two months old speaks.
T585.2.2. Child speaks prematurely on first birthday.
T585.3. Infant born blind immediately drowns self.
T585.4. Infant saint rebukes mother's impiety.
T585.5. Child born with all his teeth.
T585.5.1. Child born with hairy mane.
T585.6. Newborn child kisses dying mother.
T585.7. Precocious hero leaves cradle to go to war.
T585.8. Child stands (walks) at birth.
T585.9. Child born circumcised.
T586. Multiple births.
T586.1. Many children at a birth.
T586.1.1. Four children at a birth.
T586.1.1.1. Six children at a birth.
T586.1.2. Seven children at a birth.
T586.1.2.1. King and queen have seven sons, all named Maine.
T586.1.2.2. King has six (seven) sons, all named Lugaid.
T586.1.3. Nine children at a birth.
T586.1.4. Five children at a birth for four successive years. ---- All alive.
T586.1.5. Forty sons born in one day.
T586.2. Extraordinary number of children in family.
T586.2.1. King with fifty sons (daughters).
T586.2.2. King with 60,000 sons.
T586.3. Multiple birth as result of relations with several men. (Cf. T587.1.)
T586.3.1. Woman ravished by three brothers bears triplets
T586.3.2. Triplets killed by tribe at birth.
T586.4. Extraordinary number of animals at birth.
T586.4.1. Four calves to one cow at a birth.
T586.5. Extraordinarily frequent childbirth.
T586.5.1. Woman bears child every month.
T586.5.2. Child born each day for seven days.
T587. Birth of twins. (Cf. T685.)
T587. Birth of twins. (Cf. T685.)
T587.1. Birth of twins an indication of unfaithfulness in wife. (Cf. T586.3.)
T587.2. Twins born one with ear of other in mouth.
T587.2.1. Immediately after birth of twins one puts the other in his mouth: ---- this twin's body becomes made of iron.
T587.3. Last born twin conceived first.
T588. Motifs associated with the placenta.
T588.1. Spirits make child from placenta.
T589. Childbirth -- miscellaneous motifs.
T589.1. Co-operative birth. ---- Each of two wives bears a half-boy. They are placed together and form a real boy.
T589.2. Boy cut in two: each half becomes a boy.
T589.3. Birth trees. ---- Spring forth as hero is born; act as life tokens, etc. (Cf. T589.7.1. Type 309.)
T589.3. Birth trees. ---- Spring forth as hero is born; act as life tokens, etc. (Cf. T589.7.1. Type 309.)
T589.4. Birth with veil brings luck. (Cf. T552.5.1.)
T589.5. New-born child reincarnation of recently deceased person.
T589.6. Where children come from. ---- Explanations given to children.
T589.6.1. Children brought by the stork.
T589.6.1.1. Newborn boy placed in the lap of bathing queen by vulture.
T589.6.2. Children brought by midwife.
T589.6.3. Children said to come from underworld.
T589.6.4. Children said to come from a well.
T589.6.5. Children said to come from cauliflower.
T589.6.6. Children said to come from stones.
T589.7. Simultaneous births.
T589.7.1. Simultaneous birth of (domestic) animal and child. Type 303.
T589.7.1. Simultaneous birth of (domestic) animal and child. Type 303.
T589.7.1. Simultaneous birth of (domestic) animal and child. Type 303.
T589.7.2. Hero born in hour of Christ's Nativity.
T589.8. Woman strives to delay birth until auspicious day.
T589.8. Woman strives to delay birth until auspicious day.
T589.8. Woman strives to delay birth until auspicious day.
T589.9. Child with several mothers. ---- (Heimdal.)
T590. Conception and birth -- miscellaneous motifs.
T591. Barrenness or impotence induced by magic.
T591.1. Magic remedies for barrenness or impotence.
T591.1.1. Magic potion as remedy for impotence.
T591.1.2. Milk of hornless, single-colored cow drunk by man to make wife fruitful.
T591.2. Unlucky for a woman to look on the face of a childless person.
T592. Milk suddenly appears in woman's dry breast.
T592. Milk suddenly appears in woman's dry breast.
T592. Milk suddenly appears in woman's dry breast.
T592. Milk suddenly appears in woman's dry breast.
T592.1. Milk medicine fills woman's breasts with milk.
T595. Sign hung out informing brothers whether mother has borne boy or girl. *Type 451.
T595. Sign hung out informing brothers whether mother has borne boy or girl. *Type 451.
T596. Naming of children.
T596.1. Angel names child.
T596.2. Children named by number (1, 2, 3, etc.).
T597. Ambitions of father transferred to child at moment of conception.
T600--T699 Care of children.
T600. Care of children.
T600. Care of children.
T600. Care of children.
T600. Care of children.
T600. Care of children.
T600. Care of children.
T600. Care of children.
T600. Care of children.
T600. Care of children.
T600. Care of children.
T600. Care of children.
T600. Care of children.
T600. Care of children.
T601. Infant bathed in milk.
T602. Weapons and horses procured for boy at his birth.
T605. Divine nurse.
T610. Nurture and growth of children.
T610. Nurture and growth of children.
T610. Nurture and growth of children.
T610. Nurture and growth of children.
T610. Nurture and growth of children.
T610. Nurture and growth of children.
T610. Nurture and growth of children.
T610. Nurture and growth of children.
T610. Nurture and growth of children.
T611. Suckling of children.
T611. Suckling of children.
T611. Suckling of children.
T611. Suckling of children.
T611.1. Child nourished by suckling its own fingers.
T611.1. Child nourished by suckling its own fingers.
T611.1.1. Child nourished by sucking thumb of a god.
T611.2. Child miraculously suckled by his father.
T611.3. Witch (fairy) suckles child.
T611.4. Children magically prevented from suckling.
T611.5. Child miraculously suckled by saint. (Cf. V211.1.8.1.)
T611.5.1. Saint has two paps -- a pap with milk and a pap with honey: ---- with these he suckles two infants.
T611.5.2. Saint feeds children by cutting off cow's teats and pouring milk into them.
T611.5.3. Children miraculously suckled by angel.
T611.6. Milk magically appears in woman's breast so as to nourish orphan. (Cf. T592.)
T611.7. Abandoned child saved by seagulls; milk furnished by doe; angel brings bell as drinking utensil.
T611.8. One woman suckles many babies.
T611.9. Dead mother's breasts furnish sufficient nourishment for her baby during two years.
T611.10. Man suckled by dog (wolf): called Mac Con (Son of Dog).
T611.10.1. Girl suckled by wolf has nail "like a wolf's nail."
T611.10.2. Saint suckled by wolf.
T611.11. Child nourished by sucking the eyeballs of snake-mother (frog-mother) who left it.
T612. Child born of slain mother cares for itself during infancy.
T612. Child born of slain mother cares for itself during infancy.
T612. Child born of slain mother cares for itself during infancy.
T614. Diabolical child kills his wet-nurses. (Gowther, Robert the Devil.)
T615.
T615.
T615.
T615.
T615.
T615.1. Precocious speech. (Cf. T585.)
T615.2. Women old from their birth.
T615.3. Precocious wisdom.
T615.4. Precocious boy supports his widowed mother and himself by use of his wits.
T615.5. Precocious young child demands weapons. (Cf. T617.1.)
T617. Boy reared in ignorance of the world.
T617. Boy reared in ignorance of the world.
T617. Boy reared in ignorance of the world.
T617. Boy reared in ignorance of the world.
T617.1. Future hero as child isolated from world kills increasingly larger game with superior weapons.
T617.2. Hero learns his name at time of first adventure.
T621. Orphan inquires about parents. (Cf. L111.4.1.)
T640. Illegitimate children.
T640. Illegitimate children.
T640. Illegitimate children.
T640. Illegitimate children.
T640. Illegitimate children.
T640. Illegitimate children.
T640. Illegitimate children.
T640. Illegitimate children.
T640. Illegitimate children.
T640. Illegitimate children.
T640. Illegitimate children.
T640. Illegitimate children.
T640.1. Illegitimate child of nun. (Cf. V465.1.2.)
T640.2. Mother of illegitimate child given as pledge for his crime.
T642. Test of legitimacy of children: exposure to asps. ---- Asps will bite only foreigners. (Cf. H222.1.)
T644. Child betrays his own illegitimacy.
T645. Paramour leaves token with girl to give their son. *Type 873.
T645. Paramour leaves token with girl to give their son. *Type 873.
T645. Paramour leaves token with girl to give their son. *Type 873.
T645. Paramour leaves token with girl to give their son. *Type 873.
T645. Paramour leaves token with girl to give their son. *Type 873.
T645. Paramour leaves token with girl to give their son. *Type 873.
T645. Paramour leaves token with girl to give their son. *Type 873.
T645. Paramour leaves token with girl to give their son. *Type 873.
T645.1. Sword left for posthumous son to kill father's murderer.
T645.1. Sword left for posthumous son to kill father's murderer.
T645.2. "Keep it if it is a girl; send it to me if it is a boy." ---- Hero leaving girl says this of the prospective child.
T645.2.1. "Kill it if it is a girl."
T645.3. Father orders the mother to send the expected illegitimate boy to him when he can perform certain feats.
T645.4. Hero leaves bedmate keys to treasure chamber for the son she is supposed to bear.
T646. Illegitimate child taunted by playmates. *Type 973.
T646. Illegitimate child taunted by playmates. *Type 973.
T646.1. Child cries because his father is unknown.
T647. Illegal to care for illegitimate child.
T670. Adoption of children.
T670. Adoption of children.
T670. Adoption of children.
T670. Adoption of children.
T670. Adoption of children.
T670. Adoption of children.
T671. Adoption by suckling. ---- Ogress who suckles hero claims him as her son.
T672. Adopted child reproaches his foster mother and is returned to his real mother.
T673. Rich but stingy couple adopt young man as their son: everybody is happy.
T674. Adopted child deserted when own child is born to couple.
T675. Real mother preferred to foster mothers. ---- Kid abandoned by his mother suckles the whole flock but is not satisfied.
T675.1. Children prefer foster mother.
T676. Childless couple adopt animal as substitute for child.
T676.1.
T677. Substitute for a child. ---- Aged, childless couple carve themselves a child from wood, or make one from snow, clay, and the like.
T678. Adopted child identical with real child reared with him.
T680. Care of children -- miscellaneous motifs.
T681. Each likes his own children best. ---- Snipe asks sportsman to spare its small ones, easily recognized as being the prettiest in the forest. To be on the safe side he shoots only the ugliest he can find. They are the young snipes. (Often told of the ape.) *Type 247.
T681.1. Animals ridicule foolish pride of owl in the beauty of his son's really hideous feet.
T682. Hero a posthumous son.
T682. Hero a posthumous son.
T682. Hero a posthumous son.
T684. Devil substitutes himself for new-born child.
T685.
T685.
T685.1. Twin adventurers.
T685.1. Twin adventurers.
T685.2. Hostile twins.
T685.2. Hostile twins.
T685.3. Twins who look exactly alike.
T685.4. Twins: as twins are reared one born earlier becomes continually weaker, the other stronger.
T686. Quadruplet heroes.
T687. Triplets (as heroes).
T688. Children sleep in village dormitory.
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