Sex

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• Girl kills man who threatens her virtue. T320.2
• Woman escaping from slavery kills man who would ravish her. T320.2.1
• Bride puts to flight man who attempts to ravish her. T320.3
• Widow dons late husband's armor to put would-be ravisher to flight. T320.3.1
• Wife escapes lust of king by shaming him. T320.4
• Woman escapes king's lust by inducing bad breath. T320.4.1
• Girl gives up wealth and flees to escape lecherous emperor. T320.5
• Wife sets fire to house to escape undesired lover. T320.6
• Escape from undesired lover by miracle. T321
• Maid pledged to celibacy is given, at her prayer, a beard. T321.1
• Girl named Mary has virginity spared by knight who has bought her. The Virgin appears to her. T321.2
• 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. T321.3
• Girl prays to Virgin to spare her virginity. Two soldiers quarrel over possessing her. Captain slays her, thus "saving" her. T321.4
• Magic sickness (discomfort) prevents lover from raping woman. T321.5
• In answer to maiden's prayer saint changes boat's course and guides it to another place. T321.6
• Girl strikes man who tries to kiss her. T322
• Woman kicks lecherous monk down the stairs. T322.1
• Princess threatens to kill amorous king. T322.2
• Undesired lover drugged and carried out. T322.3
• Girl pleads vow of chastity to repel lover. T322.4
• Escape from undesired lover by strategy. T323
• Princess escapes from undesired lover by fleeing disguised as a bishop. T323.1
• Princess evades unwelcome lover by putting on foul-smelling skin-coat. T323.2
• Girl's virginity saved by the kindness of an emissary. Makes the lord believe she is a relative. T324
• Chaste woman resists advances of a conqueror. T325
• Chaste woman promises conqueror drug of invulnerability. Has him try it on her. Cuts her head off. T325.1
• Suicide to save virginity. T326
• Girls drown selves to save their virginity. T326.1
• Man is killed defending sweetheart's honor. She kills herself. T326.2
• Martyrdom to preserve virginity. T326.3
• Mutilation to repel lover. (Cf. S160, T333.) T327
• Maiden sends to her lecherous lover (brother) her eyes (hands, breasts) which he has admired. T327.1
• Woman successfully prays for disease to repel lover. T327.2
• Saint plucks out her eye when urged to marry. T327.3
• Maidens befoul selves with blood to escape rape. T327.4
• Woman raises sores on her body to preserve chastity. T327.5
• Princess takes on loathsome disguise to avoid unwelcome demon-lover. T327.6
• Girl escapes from undesired lover by cutting off her plaits of hair. T327.7
• Girl lives in sepulchre to preserve chastity. T328
• Anchorites under temptation. T330
• Man unsuccessfully tempted by woman. (St. Anthony.) T331
• Monk unsuccessfully tempted in nunnery. T331.1
• Knight unsuccessfully tempted by host's wife. T331.2
• Woman masks as man to deceive anchorite. T331.3
• No place secret enough for fornication. Monk thus repels temptress. T331.4
• 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. T331.5
• Saint flogs woman who tempts him. T331.6
• Saint sleeps with maidens without sinning. Another saint, who doubts fact, undergoes same test and perceives its efficacy. T331.7
• Monk unsuccessfully tempted by woman he formerly loved. T331.8
• Monk yells "thief" to repel temptress. When she seeks him in his bed he screams. He says she steals his most valuable possession, virtue. T331.9
• Man tempted by fiend in woman's shape. (Or woman by fiend in man's shape.) T332
• Woman sent by deity to tempt self-righteous anchorite. T332.1
• Man mutilates himself to remove temptation. T333
• Tempted man bites out his tongue and spits it in temptress's face. T333.1
• Tempted man burns off his fingers. Frightens his temptress. T333.2
• Man disfigures his face to remove temptation. T333.3
• Tempted rabbi tears out his eyes to escape temptation. T333.3.1
• Tempted holy man mutilates genitals. T333.4
• Hero cuts off head and wraps it in napkin so he will not be tempted by sight of virgins. T333.5
• Monk cures himself of desire for dead sweetheart. He digs up her remains. T334
• Monk goes into desert to avoid temptation of women, the prime source of sin. T334.1
• Saint exposes self to temptation but preserves chastity. Thus insures self greater reward in Heaven. T335
• Sight or touch of woman as source of sin. T336
• Woman's girdle as source of sin. T336.1
• Woman's voice as source of sin. T336.2
• Woman wagers that she can seduce anchorite. T337
• 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. T337.1
• Virtuous man seduced by woman. T338
• Ascetic successfully tempted: kills son born in consequence. T338.1
• Chaste sleeping together. T350
• Sword of chastity. A two-edged sword is laid between the couple sleeping together. T351
• Bed-cover of chastity. Similar to sword of chastity. T351.1
• Boy sleeps between couple to safeguard their virtue. T352
• Object set between beds of couple sleeping in same room. T353
• Chaste sleeping together to torment woman. Man remains utterly impassive. T354
• Chaste sleeping together with six sisters-in-law one by one. T355
• Young man sleeps on girl's mat without touching her to signify his desire. T356
• Chastity and celibacy – miscellaneous. T360
• Nun refuses to look at man. T362
• Nun so opposed to seeing men that she refuses to see St. Martin. T362.1
• 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." T371
• 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. T371.1
• Adulterous love changed into a chaste one. T372
• Heavy chastity belt imposed on wife. T373
• 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
• Man leaves earthly bride for service of Virgin. T376.1
• Imprisoned virgin to prevent knowledge of men (marriage, impregnation). Usually kept in a tower. (Danaë.) T381
• Girl intended for marriage with king cloistered. T381.0.1
• Wife imprisoned in tower (house) to preserve chastity. T381.0.2
• Guarded maiden first seen by hero in church. T381.1
• Guarded maiden first seen by hero in otherworld. T381.1.1
• [First Edition: T381.2. Guardians of imprisoned virgin put to sleep while man enters to her.] T381.2[1st ed.]
• Attempt to keep wife chaste by carrying her in box. In spite of all precautions she meets men. T382
• Other futile attempts to keep wife chaste. T383
• 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. T386
• Illicit sexual relations. T400
• Virgin Mary as protectress of illicit lovers. T401
• Pregnant abbess secretly delivered of her child by Virgin Mary. T401.1
• Incest. T410
• Master discovers that slave girl he wants to marry is a near relative. T410.1
• Father-daughter incest. T411
• Lecherous father. Unnatural father wants to marry his daughter. (Manekine.) T411.1
• Father by trickery secures priest's advice to marry his own daughter. If a man raise a lamb, shall he eat it himself or let another eat it? T411.1.1
• Father feigning death returns in disguise and seduces daughter. T411.1.2
• Girl got with child by intoxicated father. T411.2
• Daughters seduce drunken father. T411.2.1
• Mother-son incest. T412
• Mother guilty of incest with son forgiven by Pope (Virgin Mary). T412.1
• Incognito son tempts mother to see whether all women are wicked. T412.2
• Mother guilty of incest with son whose honor she is testing. T412.3
• Boy courts his mother, is driven off by father. T412.4
• Brother-sister incest. T415
• Lecherous brother. Wants to seduce (marry) his sister. T415.1
• Brother repels incestuous sister. T415.2
• Lovers reared as brother and sister learn to their joy that they are not related. T415.3
• Two lovers give each other up when they learn that they are brother and sister. T415.4
• Brother-sister marriage. T415.5
• Suicide to prevent brother-sister marriage. T415.6
• When boy cannot have his sister for a wife he asks for one of her eyes and ears instead. T415.7
• Son-in-law seduces mother-in-law. T417
• Mother-in-law seduces son-in-law. T417.1
• Lustful stepmother. T418
• Lustful stepfather. T418.1
• Man marries his aunt (mother's sister). T421
• Youth attempts to seduce his grandmother. T423
• Brother-in-law seduces (Cf.ks to seduce) sister-in-law. T425
• Prostitution and concubinage. T450
• Wife born to be prostitute. Husband unable to change her ways, submits to them. T450.1
• Woman disappointed in love threatens to become prostitute. T450.2
• Prostitution to avoid starvation. T450.3
• Prostitute has favorite lover. T450.4
• Devil causes girl to become prostitute. Destroys the girl's family and begets on her a boy. T451
• Bawds. Professional go-betweens. T452
• Mother acts as procuress of bedmate for her son. T452.1
• Getting advice from a woman in bed. T453
• Hero learns feats of arms through gratifying woman's lust. T453.1
• Prostitute gets advice from customer. T453.2
• Woman sells favors for particular purpose. T455
• Woman sells favors to obtain a jewel. T455.1
• Woman sells favors to obtain many jewels. T455.1.1
• Woman sacrifices her honor to free her husband (brother) from prison. T455.2
• Woman commits adultery to obtain aid for husband in battle. T455.2.1
• Woman sells favors for beautiful clothes. T455.3
• Women sells favors for new shoes. (Cf. K1357.) T455.3.1
• Parents urge girl to trade her favors for truce with hostile warrior. T455.4
• Woman gives favors to pay for help across river. T455.5
• Woman sells favors for large sum of money (property). T455.6
• Princess gives herself to Turks of her own accord in order to save her people. T455.7
• 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
• Girl dares not receive gift from a man as it may be supposed to be payment for her favors. T456.1
• Sacred prostitution. T457
• Woman enjoys the ravishings of the enemy. T458
• Sexual perversions. T460
• Person enamored of an object. T461
• Woman enamored of a river. T461.1
• Women cohabit with magic house pillars. T461.2
• Tree as wife. T461.3
• Lesbian love. T462
• Lesbian love: women give birth to monsters as result. T462.1
• Homosexual love (male). T463
• Bestiality. Intercourse of a human being and an animal. T465
• Sheep born with human head as a result of bestiality. T465.1
• Foal born of Loki after dealing with mythical stallion. T465.2
• Homocentaurus born as a result of bestiality. T465.3
• Children are spotted like leopards as result of bestiality. T465.4
• Pig born with head like that of man as a result of bestiality. T465.5
• Necrophilism: sexual intercourse with dead human body. T466
• The amorous bite. T467
• Illicit sexual relations – miscellaneous motifs. T470
• Rape. T471
• Fines imposed for rape. T471.0.1
• Man unwittingly ravishes his own sister. (Cf. N365.3.) T471.1
• Wild man as ravisher of women. (Cf. F567.) T471.2
• Husband sends wife poison to avoid having her ravished by the enemy. T471.3
• Unknown (clandestine) paramour. T475
• Unknown paramour discovered by string clue. T475.1
• Hero lies by princess in magic sleep and begets child. T475.2
• Intercourse with sleeping girl. T475.2.1
• Incognito mistress. King's mistress secretly becomes hero's without revealing identity. T476
• Adultery. T481
• Adulteress roughly treated by her lover. T481.1
• Queen's illicit passion for diseased man. T481.2
• Queen commits adultery with low-born man. T481.2.1
• Adulteress sells self to devil for money. T481.3
• Wife seduces husband's servant (pupil). T481.4
• King takes subject's wife while her husband is sent away. T481.5
• Queen begets son with duke while the king is in war. T481.6
• Woman advises husband to kill guest else, she will make him chase husband and marry her instead. T481.7
• 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.) T482
• Maidservant given to lover's companion as bed-partner. (Cf. T281.) T484
• Fruit-picking time used for sexual promiscuity. T485
• Man has a son not his wife's; wife has a daughter not her husband's. Children become lovers. T491
• Queen makes all men who come to serve her copulate with her. T492
• Black nipples of girl's breasts reveal her loss of virginity. T494
• Conception and birth. T500
• Miraculous conception. T510
• Conception from eating. T511
• Queen and maidservant conceive from eating same food. Their sons are like brothers. (Cf. P311.4.) T511.0.1
• Conception from eating a fruit. (Cf. F611.1.8.) T511.1
• Conception from eating apple. T511.1.1