Sex

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• Infertile raja marries beggar woman in hope of having a son. T121.8.1
• Marriage by royal order. Widow hesitates to marry. Queen sends her a letter ordering her to marry the bearer (a suitor). T122
• Lazy boy and industrious girl matched. Jesus (incognito) as matchmaker. T125
• Fool given intelligent wife; lame man hardworking wife. T125.1
• Blind girl marries lame man. (Cf. H886.) T125.2
• Fantastic marriage. T126
• Marriage of Mother Earth and ogre. T126.1
• Marriage of mountain and cockle-shell. T126.2
• Marriage of earth and sky. T126.3
• Marriage customs. T130
• Marriage restrictions. T131
• Princess has unrestricted choice of husband. (Cf. T55.7.) T131.0.1
• Father promises that girl may wed only man of her choice. T131.0.1.1
• Relative's consent to marriage necessary. T131.1
• Brother's consent for sister's marriage needed. T131.1.1
• Father's consent to son's (daughter's) marriage necessary. T131.1.2
• Girl must marry father's choice. T131.1.2.1
• King chooses bridegroom for daughter from boys' pictures. T131.1.2.2
• Father demands that son break all relations with his beloved. T131.1.2.3
• Son refuses to marry father's choice. T131.1.2.4
• Marriage against will of parents. T131.1.3
• Younger child may not marry before elder. T131.2
• Eldest daughter will marry man only if he will marry all her sisters too. T131.3
• Widow may not remarry. T131.4
• Exogamy. Marriage only outside the group. T131.5
• Marriage within clans sanctioned because of incest-origin of tribe. T131.5.1
• Girl will marry on condition she is to be only wife. T131.6
• King may not marry girl who has been wife of another. T131.7
• Different religion as obstacle for marriage. T131.8
• Brahmin may marry from all four castes. T131.9
• Preparation for wedding. T132
• Girl fattened before wedding. T132.1
• Parents become servants to secure funds for wedding. T132.2
• Travel to wedding. T133
• Faithful servant accompanies bride to new home. T133.1
• Royal bride conducted by embassy to husband's kingdom. (Cf. T51.) T133.2
• Drummer beats drums before bride on way to wedding. T133.3
• Bridegroom and his men come for the bride. T133.4
• Mounting upon horse to fetch bride. T133.5
• Groom's mother visits bride-to-be and puts the betrothal ring on her finger. T133.6
• Conduct of bridal couple before ceremony. T134
• Bridal couple must never see each other before wedding. T134.1
• Betrothed parties do not see each other until night of the wedding. T134.2
• Man who has once been married helps groom to dress for wedding. T134.3
• Wedding ceremony. T135
• Marriage formula: "You are mine and I am yours". T135.1
• Touching of privates considered a marriage pact. T135.2
• Wedding by proxy. T135.3
• Sword and shield as proxy at wedding ceremony. T135.3.1
• Groom's sword makes vermillion mark on bride's forehead as wedding ceremony. T135.4
• Marriage by exchange of garlands. T135.5
• Marriage by drinking festival. (Cf. T136.1.) T135.6
• The bride must have someone to give her away, usually her father or brother. T135.7
• Two or more weddings at one time as the end of a tale. T135.8
• Wedding ceremony in church. T135.9
• Marriage custom: going round and round fire (pillar, etc.). T135.10
• Bride and groom drink from same cup as part of ceremony. T135.11
• Bodies of would-be bride and groom besmeared with turmeric and mustard-oil. T135.12
• Bride and groom look into a big mirror while old member of family knocks both their heads together. T135.13
• Wedding-canopy over bride and groom. T135.14
• Breaking a glass during wedding ceremony. T135.15
• Accompaniments of wedding. T136
• Wedding feast. T136.1
• Rice thrown at weddings. T136.2
• Amusements at wedding. T136.3
• Dancing at wedding. T136.3.1
• Marriage odes sung at wedding feast. T136.3.2
• Gifts at wedding. T136.4
• Gifts for bridal couple by a special ceremony with the bride on a bridebench. T136.4.1
• Parting gifts after wedding. T136.4.2
• Bride scatters presents among groom's relations. T136.4.3
• Customs following wedding. T137
• Advice to a parting bride. T137.1
• Bride and bridegroom conducted to bridal bed. T137.2
• Bride and groom simultaneously touch hearthstones and put one foot down inside threshold as they enter groom's house. T137.2.1
• Groom invited after marriage ceremony into female apartments to eat wedding breakfast with the bride. T137.3
• Groom becomes a member of bride's family. T137.4
• Bride (and party) fetched by groom and party after wedding. T137.5
• Journey to husband's home accompanied by attendants. T137.6
• Assignment of bride to another. T141
• Dying man assigns bride to his brother. T141.1
• Wives exchanged. T141.2
• Hero assigns the bride he has won to another. T141.3
• Infant marriages. T143
• Polygamous marriages. T145
• Polygyny. T145.0.1
• Marriage to five women, each with separate duties. T145.1
• Man requires seven women. T145.1.1
• Seven wives each to have the husband one day a week. T145.1.2
• Man married to several sisters. T145.1.3
• Second wife taken because first is barren. T145.2
• Competition in ale-brewing between king's two wives. T145.3
• Man's two wives each claim part of his body: they torment him. T145.4
• Man pulled down stairs by his two wives. T145.5
• Polygamist must love all his wives. T145.6
• Man's senior wife ugly but diligent; his second, beautiful but lazy. T145.7
• Polygamy so that head wife may be quickly replaced for wrongdoing. T145.8
• Polyandry. Woman with two husbands. T146
• Several men marry one woman. T146.1
• Woman requires thirty men. T146.2
• Marriages made at annual festival. T147
• Matriarchy. T148
• Son named for mother. T148.1
• Happenings at weddings. T150
• Year's respite from unwelcome marriage. T151
• Respite ruse. Captive maiden assigns quest, agreeing to marry when it is accomplished. T151.0.1
• Father giving away daughter makes condition: son-in-law not to see daughter as his wife during one year. T151.0.2
• Six months' respite from unwelcome marriage. T151.1
• Thirty days' respite from unwelcome marriage. T151.2
• Other respites from unwelcome marriage (three months, two years, etc.). T151.3
• Bride wounded accidentally on way home. Fatal wound from bridegroom's sword. T152
• Bridegroom slain on way to bride. T153
• Cruel stepmother enchants stepdaughter on eve of wedding. (Cf. D5, S31.) T154
• Old beggar transforms wedding party into wolves. (Cf. D113.1.) T155
• 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 insure heir of warrior destined to be slain (next day) in battle. T156.1
• 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. T157
• Consummation of marriage. T160
• Jus primae noctis. Overlord claims right of sleeping the first night with subject's wife. T161
• King deflowers all twelve year old girls. T161.0.1
• Lover allowed to sleep with woman first few nights after her marriage to another. T161.1
• Feast of "bedding and handspreading" before consummation of marriage. T162
• Girl may remain virgin for three days after marriage. (Cf. C117.) T165
• Consummation of marriage postponed until revelation by dream of future of family has been secured. T165.1
• One year to elapse between ceremony and consummation of marriage. T165.2
• Twenty-four hours to elapse before consummation of marriage. T165.3
• Bride and groom separated on wedding night. T165.4
• Three years asked before consummation of marriage as trick. T165.5
• Consummation of marriage postponed till couple return home. T165.6
• For first six months bride of prince is only to sit an hour or two in his house. T165.7
• Bride afraid of intercourse refuses consummation until judge orders it in court. T166
• Bride refuses to sleep with ugly groom. T166.1
• Bridegroom must be taught sexual intercourse. T166.2
• Bridegroom driven from bridal chamber by magic. Usually by hornets or wasps. T171
• Dangers to husband in bridal chamber. T172
• All husbands have perished on bridal night. See references to F547.1.1, F582, F582.1. T172.0.1
• Bridal chamber filled with coiled snakes. T172.1
• Bridal chamber invaded by magic dragon (serpent). (Cf. B176.1.) T172.2
• Grateful dead man kills princess's monster husband. (Or otherwise renders her innocuous to the bridegroom.) T172.2.1
• Bride's monster-father tries to kill husband, but is defeated. T172.3
• Murderous bride. T173
• Strong bride tries to stifle husband in bed. T173.1
• Hostile brides kill husbands in the bridal bed. T173.2
• Magic perils threaten bridal couple. The perils are various – magic horse, poison, enchanted clothes, etc. T175
• Falling furniture threatens bridal couple. Furniture etc. arranged by jealous rival so that it will fall. T175.1
• Bridegroom magically impelled to leave his bride. T177
• Dangerous husband. (Cf. T172.) T181
• Death from intercourse. T182
• Marriage – miscellaneous motifs. T190
• Marriage by force. T192
• Married life. T200
• Marriage destroys friendship. Lover and mistress live together and are happy; become unhappy as soon as they marry. T201
• The happy couple: wife blind, husband deaf. T202
• Peace in marriage more important than truth. T203
• Faithfulness in marriage. T210
• Faithful wife. T210.1
• Faithful husband. T210.2
• Faithfulness to marriage in death. T211
• Wife dies so that husband's death may be postponed. T211.1
• Woman drowns herself as sacrifice to water-gods to save husband's boat from capsizing. T211.1.1
• Husband learning from augurs that his wife will die if he saves self from serpent, lets self be bitten to death. T211.1.2
• Wife offers to sacrifice her right arm for husband's safe return. T211.1.3
• Female deer offers herself instead of her mate, who has been captured. Hunter, struck by her sacrifice, lets both go. T211.1.4
• Wife's suicide at husband's death. (Cf. T81.7.) T211.2
• Wife throws herself on husband's funeral pyre. T211.2.1
• Wife prefers to be burned together with husband even though she was forced to marry him and she has helped to prepare the revenge. T211.2.1.1
• Wife promises to die with husband. T211.2.2
• Husband and wife kill themselves so as not to be separated. T211.3
• Husband falls on sword when his wife dies. T211.3.1
• Wife hangs self because her husband has been killed. T211.3.2
• Spouse's corpse kept after death. T211.4
• Wife's corpse kept after death. T211.4.1
• Husband's corpse kept after death. T211.4.2
• Wife will not give up dead body of husband to God of Death. T211.4.2.1
• Man becomes a hermit after his wife's death. T211.5
• Widowed she-fox rejects suitors who do not resemble her deceased husband. T211.6
• 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
• Wife unwilling to deceive her husband for the man she loves. T211.8
• Excessive grief at husband's or wife's death. T211.9
• Wife dies of grief for death of husband. (Cf. T81.7.) T211.9.1
• Wife swoons realizing her husband is dead. T211.9.1.1
• Man kills self in grief for wife. T211.9.2
• Grieving man goes to die where his wife's corpse lies. T211.9.2.1
• Loving couple die of separation. T212
• Constancy of wife brings husband back to life. T212.1
• Husband (wife) sickens as result of separation from spouse. T213
• Faithfulness of married couple in misfortune. T215
• Wife carries mutilated husband on her back so that he may beg. T215.1
• Wife offers starving husband (father) milk from her breasts. T215.2
• Husband nourishes starving wife with his own flesh and blood. T215.3
• 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. T215.4
• Fugitive returns to his family so that they may collect reward from his capture. T215.5
• Woman swims nightly to husband's prison and arranges his escape. Spurns the attentions of treacherous suitor. (Cf. R152.) T215.6
• Wife travels for years with sick husband in order to have him cured. T215.7
• Wife alone does not desert leprous husband. T215.7.1
• Woman sells her hair to feed starving husband. T215.8
• Loathly bridegroom carried on back in basket by wife. T216
• Wife refuses to become unfaithful although she knows her husband to be so. T217
• 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. T221
• Wife hides husband's unfaithfulness from emperor and even shelters his mistress. T222