Sex

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• Love. T0
• Zeus gives man modesty, but it leaves when love enters. T1
• 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
• Omens in love affairs. T3
• Blue fortunate in love matters. T3.1
• Person wants to learn art of love. T4
• Herdsman to learn art of love so he can become a holy man. T4.1
• Love as inducement to idolatry. T6
• Sexual desire as original sin. T8
• Falling in love. T10
• Sluggish prince reformed by falling in love. T10.1
• Gambler reformed by falling in love. T10.1.1
• Love transforms crude individual into a polished courtier. T10.1.2
• Angel of love compels man to fall in love. T10.2
• Girl continually falling in love. T10.3
• Falling in love with person never seen. T11
• Love from mere mention or description. T11.1
• Beauty of woman reported to king causes quest for her as his bride. T11.1.1
• Love through sight of picture. T11.2
• Ugly picture of suitor makes girl refuse him. T11.2.0.1
• Love through sight of statue. T11.2.1
• Youth makes statue of girl and seeks a girl like the statue. T11.2.1.1
• Love through dream. Falling in love with a person seen in a dream. T11.3
• Lovers meet in their dreams. T11.3.1
• Dream about a marriage with another's wife. T11.3.2
• Love through sight of something belonging to unknown princess. T11.4
• Love through sight of hair of unknown princess. T11.4.1
• Love through sight of hair of unknown hero. T11.4.1.1
• Love through sight of slipper of unknown princess. T11.4.2
• Love through finding lady's wreath. T11.4.3
• Love through seeing bouquet. T11.4.3.1
• Love through seeing marks of lady's teeth in fruit which she has bitten. T11.4.4
• Love through finding lady's handkerchief. T11.4.5
• Love through finding lady's ornament (ring, comb, etc.). T11.4.6
• Falling in love at receipt of girl's amulet. T11.4.7
• Falling in love with reflection in water. Princess thus first sees prince. T11.5
• Falling in love with one's own reflection in water. (Narcissus.) T11.5.1
• Wish for wife red as blood, white as snow, black as raven. T11.6
• Love through sight in magic mirror. (Cf. D1163.) T11.7
• Falling in love with beautiful voice. T11.8
• Love through prophecy that prince shall marry the fairest. T12
• Woman falls in love as result of husband's praise of her suitor. T13
• Love at first sight. T15
• Princess so lovely that everyone falls in love with her. T15.1
• Man falls in love with woman he sees bathing. T16
• Woman falls in love with man she sees bathing. T16.0.1
• Bathing woman sees hero and falls in love with him. T16.0.2
• Man falls in love by the sight of woman's white arms. T16.1
• Man falls in love on seeing dead body of beautiful girl. (Cf. T466.) T16.2
• Mutual love through accidental drinking of love philtre. T21
• Predestined lovers. Future wife or husband assigned by destiny. (Cf. T54.) T22
• Lovers mated before birth. Fate compels their union as soon as they meet. T22.1
• Predestined wife. (Cf. M312.1.) T22.2
• Predestined husband. T22.3
• Lovers fated to marry each other born at same time; identical prophecies for both. (Cf. T61.5.) T22.4
• The symptoms of love. T24
• Love-sickness. T24.1
• Night emissions from lusting after certain woman bring man near death. T24.1.1
• Swooning for love. T24.2
• Fainting away for love (or sexual desire). (Cf. F1041.1.6.1.) T24.2.1
• Swooning for fright that lover shall be killed. T24.2.2
• Fainting away from seeing an extraordinary beauty. T24.2.3
• Madness from love. T24.3
• Woman takes on lover's deformity (while conversing with him). T24.4
• Boy turns red and white from love. T24.5
• Lover refuses food and drink. T24.6
• Waiting for twenty-two years to see a beauty. T24.7
• Man promises to sacrifice self in order to marry beloved. T24.8
• Miraculous healing from a passionate love. T25
• Attention distracted by sight of beloved. T26
• 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
• Unusual success in love. T27
• Thirty young girls fall in love with a young man. T27.1
• Seventy princesses in love with hero. He loves only the youngest one. T27.2
• Hundred rajas fall in love with one woman. T27.3
• Princess falls in love with a man disguised as a woman. T28
• Falling in love – miscellaneous. T29
• Boy and girl fall in love when curtain is pulled aside. T29.1
• Lovers' meeting. T30
• Lovers' meeting: hero in service of heroine. As page, or the like. T31
• Lovers' meeting: hero in service of lady's father. T31.1
• Lovers' meeting: heroine heals hero's wounds. (Cf. T67.2.) T32
• Lovers' meeting: hero in heroine's father's prison from which she helps him to escape. T32.1
• Man transformed to animal kept as pet by heroine. (Cf. D658.) T33
• Lovers meet at social gathering. T34
• Sudden love as woman pours drink for man at festival. T34.1
• Falling in love while playing game. T34.2
• Falling in love while playing draughts. T34.2.1
• Lovers' rendezvous. (Cf. R315.1.) T35
• Lover late at rendezvous; detained by incessant talker. T35.0.1
• Magic sleep causes lover to miss appointment with mistress. T35.0.2
• Fountain (well) as lovers' rendezvous. T35.1
• Pavilion as lovers' rendezvous. T35.2
• Girl intoxicates nurse to keep rendezvous with lover. T35.3
• Hesitation in making up mind spoils lovers' rendezvous. (Cf. J2166.) T35.4
• Lover goes to see his beloved in her husband's (or her father's) house, defiant of the danger. T35.5
• Girl sleeps in garden to meet lover. Discovered next morning and married. T36
• Lover finds lady in tomb apparently dead. She revives and marries him. T37
• "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. T37.0.1
• Despairing lover at lady's tomb takes poison. She revives to learn of his fatal error and shares his fate. (Romeo and Juliet.) T37.1
• Communication of lovers. T41
• Communication of lovers through hole in wall. T41.1
• Communication of lovers through hole in floor. T41.2
• Lovers' signal. Informs lover when he must come. T41.3
• Conversation of lovers. T42
• Unacquainted lovers converse in sign language. T42.1
• Lovers converse in figures of speech not understood by others. T42.2
• Lover buys admission to woman's room. T45
• Suitor outwits watchman to meet lady. T46
• To reach beauty young man climbs eight fences watched by one hundred guards. T46.1
• Heroine hidden by stepmother when suitor comes. T47
• Wooing. T50
• Girl carefully guarded from suitors. T50.1
• Girl carefully guarded by mother. (Cf. K1349.4.) T50.1.1
• Girl carefully guarded by father. T50.1.2
• Girl carefully guarded from suitors by hag. T50.1.3
• Cat and dog as guards of imprisoned beauty. (Cf. B576.1.) T50.1.4
• King likes his daughter so much that he does not wish to marry her to anyone. T50.2
• King unwilling to marry his daughter to a man not her equal. T50.2.1
• Mythical being asks for girl in marriage. (Cf. T111.) T50.3
• Wooing by emissary. T51
• Wooing emissary wins lady's love for himself. T51.1
• Wooing emissary admitted to woman's room. Elopes with her. (Cf. K1349.1.5.) T51.1.1
• King wooes through his daughter and the princess's maiden. T51.2
• Match arranged by means of pictures of both parties. T51.3
• Messengers seek wife for hero to resemble image they carry with them. T51.3.1
• Bride purchased. T52
• Prince buys twig (flower) (enchanted girl) from her mother. (Cf. D212, D215.) T52.1
• Purchase money instead of bride given to suitor to settle dispute. T52.2
• Bride purchased for her weight in gold. T52.3
• Dowry given at marriage of daughter. T52.4
• Amount of dowry fixed by custom in bride's family. T52.4.1
• Attempt to purchase wife. T52.5
• Rich girl gives poor suitor necklace with which to pay her bride-price. T52.6
• Princess asked for in return for sparing palace. (Cf. S222.) T52.7
• Absent man's wife demanded in law court in payment of debt by creditor. T52.8
• Village given to bride-to-be as part of her dowry. T52.9
• Matchmakers. T53
• Matchmakers arrange weddings. T53.0.1
• Incognito prophet as matchmaker. T53.1
• Christ as matchmaker. T53.2
• Saint as matchmaker. T53.3
• God occupied with matchmaking. T53.4
• Barber as matchmaker. T53.5
• Choosing bride by horoscope. (Cf. B152.2, M302.4, T22.) T54
• Girl as wooer. Forthputting woman. T55
• Princess declares her love for lowly hero. T55.1
• Princess declares love for courtier. T55.1.1
• Servant-girl helps prince if he will make her chief wife. T55.2
• Lady in love with ruler enlists friend's aid. Rendezvous arranged. T55.3
• Little girl will give prince marvelous objects if he promises to marry her later. T55.4
• Gift made by bride to husband. T55.4.1
• Princess feigns sickness to woo hero. Only marriage to him will cure her. T55.5
• Person (man, woman) exhibits figure. T55.6
• Maidens (women) request hero to exhibit figure. T55.6.1
• Princess elects herself husband from the young men present. (Cf. H311, H362, T131.0.1.) T55.7
• Princess declares love by presenting cup of drink at feast. T55.8
• Harper as love messenger sent by girl. T55.9
• Princess offers reward for securing prince as husband for her. T55.10
• Princess transforms self to woo. (Cf. D658.) T55.11
• Means of attracting sweetheart. T56
• Bride attracted by music. T56.1
• Bride attracted by flute. T56.1.1
• Image of God of Love sent to fetch bride. (Cf. A475.) T56.2
• Forgotten fiancée sends lover false diamond inscribed with Christ's last words: "Oh Lord why hast Thou forsaken me?" Lover returns. (Cf. D2003.) T56.3
• Beautiful woman enticed by wonderful flower. T56.4
• Declaration of love. T57
• Lover declares himself by showing her own reflection to his beloved. (Cf. T91.6.1.1.) T57.1
• Wooing the strong and beautiful bride. T58
• Betrothal. T61
• Betrothal by lovers' drinking each other's blood. T61.1
• Parting lovers pledge not to marry for seven years. T61.2
• At betrothal maid makes shirt for her lover. T61.3
• Betrothal ceremony. T61.4
• Liquor brewed for betrothal. T61.4.1
• At betrothal ceremony both parties drink out of the loving-cup. T61.4.2
• Engagement ritual: intermediary sprinkles girl with flour. T61.4.3
• Token of betrothal sent to parents of a proposed bridegroom; acceptance means agreement to proposed match. T61.4.4
• Betrothal by gold ring. T61.4.5
• Dying lover sends his sweetheart his ring. (Cf. T81.) T61.4.5.1
• Children born on same night betrothed. (Cf. B311, T22.4.) T61.5
• Betrothal of hero to princess while both are still in cradle. T61.5.1
• Children ten and twelve years old betroth themselves. T61.5.2
• Unborn children promised in marriage to each other. T61.5.3
• Princess to marry first man who asks for her. T62
• Man to marry first woman who gives him alms. T62.1
• Minister's daughter to marry first bachelor who arrives. T62.2
• Princess's husband selected by elephant bowing to him. (Cf. H171.1.) T63
• King seeks bride only because counsellors insist. T64
• Betrothal restrictions. T65
• Maiden will not give her troth to two brothers successively. T65.1
• Girl formally betrothed can never marry another should anything happen to prevent her from marrying the first. T65.1.1
• Mercenary soldier (exile) unsuitable as husband. T65.2
• Help in wooing. (Cf. B582.) T66
• Grateful dead man helps hero win princess. T66.1
• Grateful little boys help hero win girl. T66.2
• Prince offered as prize. T67
• Marriage to prince as reward for disenchanting him. (Cf. L162.) T67.1
• Marriage to prince as reward for curing him. T67.2
• Prince will marry girl who will rescue him from embarrassing position. T67.3