Sex

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• King marries girl who frees him from the clutches of magic doll. (Cf. D1268.) T67.3.1
• Princess offered as prize. T68
• Princess offered as prize to rescuer. T68.1
• Earl's daughter as reward to knight who helped to kill fierce buffalo. T68.2
• Princess as prize to man who saves his country. T68.3
• Vanquished king gives hero his daughter and control over his kingdom. T68.4
• Girl marries hunter when he promises to return to monkey brothers their human form. (Cf. D118.) T68.5
• Wooing – miscellaneous motifs. T69
• 100 brothers seek 100 sisters as wives. (Seven – seven, fifty – fifty, etc.) T69.1
• Three brothers married to three sisters. T69.1.1
• Seven princesses sought by seven princes. T69.1.2
• Parents affiance children without their knowledge. T69.2
• Parents wooing one of seven daughters for their son. T69.2.1
• Parents decide princess can marry no one who weighs more than she. T69.2.2
• Man gives daughter in return for his release. (Cf. S222.) T69.3
• Raja betroths his daughter to visitor's son as a compensation for murder. T69.3.1
• Bashful suitor directs his wooing to an oak. T69.4
• Father punishes daughter by giving her to poor man in marriage. T69.5
• The scorned lover. T70
• Women scorned in love. T71
• Accidental death fate of woman scorned in love. T71.1
• Woman avenges scorned love. T71.2
• Woman scorned in love complains of man's coldness. T71.2.1
• Woman won and then scorned. T72
• Maid eloping with pretended lover is forced by him to strip. T72.1
• Nobleman marries poor girl and then abandons her. T72.2
• Prince marries scornful girl and punishes her. T72.2.1
• Woman sets out to kill man who has won and then scorned her. Ruler brings about their reconciliation. T72.3
• Woman entertains two lovers on alternate nights. They expose the deception and scorn her in public. T72.4
• Man scorned by his beloved. T75
• Suitors ill-treated. T75.0.1
• Mortal woman rejects deity for human lover. T75.0.2
• Scorn of unloved suitor punished. T75.1
• Scorned lover kills successful one. T75.2
• Rejected suitors' revenge. T75.2.1
• Unrequited love expressed in song (poem). T75.3
• Lady humiliates lover after he leaves wife for her. T75.4
• Scorned lover becomes an anchorite. (Cf. T330.) T75.5
• Divine hand catches scorned lover as he plunges from minaret top to die. T75.6
• Princess calls her suitors ugly names. T76
• Maid vexes suitor by pretense. Noble maid who is to marry knight pretends to be beggar's daughter. T77
• Tragic love. T80
• Death from love. T81
• Man dies at bedside of dying sweetheart. T81.1
• Death from unrequited love. T81.2
• Scorned lover kills self. T81.2.1
• Scorned lover (woman) threatens to kill self. T81.2.1.1
• Girl falls dead on lover's body. T81.3
• Man dies when the bride who had been denied him kisses him. T81.4
• Sick lover dies from exertion of embracing beloved. T81.5
• Girl kills herself after lover's death. T81.6
• Woman dies on hearing of lover's or husband's death. (Cf. T211.9.1.) T81.7
• Wife swallows hot coal and dies because her husband is unfaithful. T81.8
• Bath of blood of beloved to cure love-sick empress. T82
• Hero and Leander. Lover drowned as he swims to see his mistress. T83
• Girl drowns as she swims to see her lover. Her brothers deceive her with false signal light. T83.1
• Lovers treacherously separated. T84
• Woman mourns dead lover. T85
• Woman thinking lover dead erects cenotaph and mourns before it. T85.1
• Princess hangs up weapons of dead lover as continual reminder. T85.2
• The Pot of Basil. Mistress keeps murdered lover's skull in flower-pot. T85.3
• Lover's body kept embalmed for years by grieving mistress. (Cf. T211.4.) T85.4
• 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 he is cured of his love. T85.4.1
• Lovers buried in same grave. T86
• Rival suitors kill each other over woman's love. Woman dies of broken heart and all three are buried in the same grave. T86.1
• Lovers die at the same time. T86.2
• Mistress springs into dead lover's grave. T86.3
• Girl and boy promised to each other by parents both die when they see each other after girl's marriage to another. T86.4
• Lovers forbidden to marry starve themselves to death. T87
• Woman stricken by plague and forsaken by her husband is sought out by unsuccessful lover and dies in his arms. T88
• Love kept up even after one of the parties is married to another. T88.1
• Tragic love – miscellaneous motifs. T89
• Woman falls in love with dying warrior. T89.1
• Princess married to mortally wounded prince and both left in jungle. T89.1.1
• Woman sacrifices herself in order to save beloved. T89.2
• Love – miscellaneous motifs. T90
• Unequals in love. T91
• Giant's daughter loves hero. See references to G530.2. T91.1
• Giant's daughter has child by hero. T91.1.1
• Love of mortal and devil. T91.2
• Devil would be maid's paramour. (Cf. G303.9.4.7.) T91.2.1
• Love of mortal and supernatural person. T91.3
• Supernatural lover performs girl's work. T91.3.1
• Love of goddess for mortal. (Cf. T111.1.) T91.3.2
• God enamored of mortal. (Cf. A188.) T91.3.3
• God falls in love with a woman of low caste. T91.3.3.1
• Age and youth in love. T91.4
• Mature married woman in love with callow youth. T91.4.1
• Old teacher wishes to marry his young girl pupil. T91.4.1.1
• Rich and poor in love. T91.5
• Rich girl in love with poor boy. T91.5.1
• Daughter of merchant develops intimacy with slave. T91.5.1.1
• Noble and lowly in love. T91.6
• Lowly person falls in love with king (queen). T91.6.1
• Courtier in love with queen. Queen asks him whom he loves. He holds up a mirror to her as answer. (Cf. T57.1.) T91.6.1.1
• King (prince) in love with a lowly girl. (Cf. L162, T121.8.) T91.6.2
• King covets subject's wife. T91.6.2.0.1
• Prince falls in love with minister's daughter. T91.6.3
• Prince falls in love with merchant's daughter exposed in jungle. T91.6.3.1
• Princess falls in love with lowly boy. (Cf. L161.) T91.6.4
• Sultan's daughter in love with captured knight. T91.6.4.1
• Princess falls in love with knight. Marries him after her husband's death. T91.6.4.1.1
• Hostile amazon's daughter loves hero. T91.6.4.1.2
• Princess falls in love with a king who becomes a slave. T91.6.4.2
• Princess runs away with hunchback. T91.6.4.3
• Unequals in love – miscellaneous. T91.7
• Brahmin in love with washerwoman. T91.7.1
• Falling in love with someone of a different caste. T91.7.2
• Rivals in love. T92
• Girl promised to three different suitors; because she is unable to settle the dispute she eats poison and dies. T92.0.1
• The triangle plot and its solutions. Two men in love with the same woman; two women with the same man. T92.1
• Young wife of old man (king) loves (is loved by) younger man. T92.1.1
• Would-be unfaithful wife. T92.1.2
• Three victims of love. Girl loves boy; boy loves singing girl; singing girl loves the girl. All die of despair. T92.2
• Girl leaves rescuer for younger lover. T92.3
• Girl leaves rescuer and elopes with his friend. T92.3.1
• 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
• Hero falls asleep while sweetheart is being married to another. T92.4.1
• Letter falsified and elopement with false lover arranged. T92.4.2
• In darkness of night trickster instead of her chosen lover elopes with girl. T92.4.3
• Lover kills his rival brother. T92.5
• Mother and daughter as rivals in love. T92.6
• Rival lovers do battle for girl. (Cf. T86.1.) T92.7
• Sisters in love with same man. T92.8
• Father and son as rivals in love. T92.9
• Parricide because of father-son rivalry for girl's love. T92.9.1
• Rival in love killed. T92.10
• Rivals contesting for the same girl. T92.11
• Rival suitors discomfit each other. T92.11.1
• Two smiths as rivals for love of girl. T92.12
• 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. T92.12.1
• Older warrior preferred as suitor. T92.13
• 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. T92.14
• Fate of disappointed lover. T93
• Disappointed lover becomes a wild man in the woods. (Cf. F567.) T93.1
• Disappointed lover turns hermit. (Cf. V472.) T93.2
• Lover becomes friar and sweetheart nun when unable to marry. T93.2.1
• Disappointed lover kills self. T93.3
• Disappointed lover buys poison for girl. Druggist substitutes sleeping potion. Girl revives and is reconciled. T93.4
• Tragic love between a Pari and a mortal man; they never meet again, but continually roam the earth seeking each other. T93.5
• Lover opposed to sweetheart's relatives. T95
• Princess falls in love with father's enemy. T95.0.1
• Lover kills his lady's relatives in fight. T95.1
• Lovers reunited after many adventures. T96
• Father opposed to daughter's marriage. T97
• Love – additional motifs. T99
• Death from excess of women. (Cf. F112.1.) T99.1
• Girl wants to marry lover even if he is mutilated. T99.2
• Marriage. T100
• Hero returns and marries first love. T102
• Foreign king wages war to enforce demand for princess in marriage. T104
• Rejected suitor wages war. (Cf. T75.2.1.) T104.1
• Victor demands defeated king's daughter (widow) in marriage. T104.2
• Unusual marriage. T110
• Marriage of mortal and supernatural being. T111
• Marriage to supernatural wives who disappear. T111.0.1
• Supernatural wife summoned by bell. T111.0.2
• Marriage of a mortal and a god. T111.1
• Maiden chooses disguised god as husband. T111.1.1
• Man marries the daughter of a god. T111.1.2
• Woman from sky-world marries mortal man. T111.2
• Hero marries star in form of girl. T111.2.1
• Star-wife gives birth to a human baby. T111.2.1.1
• Marriage of mortal and moon. (Cf. A753.1.) T111.2.2
• Sun has a woman for his wife. T111.2.3
• Marriage of man with woman who has come from an egg. T111.3
• God as lover of giantess (18 giantesses). T111.4
• Marriage of mortal and dwarf. T111.5
• Marriage of mortal and angel. T111.6
• Marriage to man alive by night but dead by day. T113
• Sorceress marries a man every morning and transforms him to some kind of animal in the evening. (Cf. D621.) T113.1
• Man marries ogre's daughter. T115
• Marriage of person and object. T117
• Marriage of girl to a dagger. T117.1
• Marriage of girl to a sword. T117.2
• Marriage of girl to a drum. T117.3
• Marriage of girl to an idol. T117.4
• Marriage with a tree. T117.5
• Marriage to tree by day, man by night. (Cf. D621.2, T113.) T117.5.1
• Marriage to a flower. T117.6
• Marriage to a gourd. T117.7
• Marriage to doll. T117.8
• Marriage to river. T117.9
• Plant wife (in form of a woman). T117.10
• Marriage to a statue. T117.11
• Girl (man) married to (enamored of) a monster. T118
• Monster husband invisible. T118.1
• Marriage of dragon girl to orphan boy. T118.2
• Unequal marriage. T121
• Knight weds peasant girl. T121.1
• Noblewoman weds shepherd. T121.2
• Princess marries courtier. T121.3
• Princess marries lowly man. (Cf. L161.1.) T121.3.1
• Ruler marries fugitive noblewoman. T121.4
• Wealthy girl marries deformed and penniless philosopher. T121.5
• Princess marries saint. T121.5.1
• Rich girl marries fakir. T121.5.2
• Man weds his bondmaid. T121.6
• Rich girl marries servant. T121.7
• King (rich man) weds common girl. (Cf. L162, T91.6.2.) T121.8