58 motifs match “bridegroom”  ·  back to the chapters

• God represented as bridegroom. A137.12
• Loathly bridegroom. Woman disenchants loathsome man by embracing him. D733
• Swine bridegroom. Bride disenchants him by her love. He returns to original form. D733.2
• Serpent damsel. Woman has serpent inside which comes out and kills her bridegrooms. F582.1
• Bridegroom dies from joy. F1041.1.5.1
• Witch breaks bridegroom's leg when slighted by bride. G269.12.1
• Devil plays fiddle at wedding. Causes bad luck (kills bridegroom). G303.9.8.2
• Bridegroom alone able to pluck flower from bride's grave. H31.12.1
• Severed finger as sign of crime. Robber bridegroom thus detected. H57.2.1
• Brother unwittingly qualifies as bridegroom of sister in test. H310.2
• Bridegroom-to-be has to have three pecks, three quarts of gold and an animal with a horn on his head pointing to the sky, and a large red hair. H312.8
• Bride test: sewing a shirt for bridegroom's father. H383.2.3
• Bridegroom propounds riddles at wedding feast. H540.5
• Quest for unknown bridegroom who has certain name and is only son among seven children of father. H1381.7
• Ducklings take to water from instinct. Bridegroom thus brought to understand bride's expertness in lovemaking. J64
• Bridegroom promises thief spoils later if he will not interfere with wedding. J1392.5
• Bridegroom does not know what to do on his wedding night. J1744.1
• Bridegroom gets into bed. The numskull groom on his wedding night does not know how to get to the bed, the curtains being drawn. He scales one of the posts, clambers to the canopy, falls upon his bride below, who screams for help. J1744.1.1
• Foolish bridegroom follows instructions literally. J2462
• The dog Parsley in the soup. The foolish bridegroom is told to put parsley in the soup. He throws in his dog, which is named Parsley. J2462.1
• Casting sheep's eyes at the bride. The foolish bridegroom is told to cast sheep's eyes at the bride. He buys some at the butcher shop and throws them at her. J2462.2
• "Don't allow paint to wear off my daughter's feet." Bridegroom carries her upside down across river and drowns her. (Cf. J2412.6.) J2489.11
• Thief pretends to be girl's bridegroom and calls for her. K311.8.3
• Thief in the clothes of robbed bride kills bridegroom. K311.16.2
• Princess has brought ill luck to bridegroom. When palace and retainers disappear after wedding and only humble hut remains, clever fox tells king his daughter's feet have brought ill luck to the groom, his master. King gives half his kingdom in compensation. K443.12
• Trickster masking as bridegroom tells bride that he comes at her mother's request. K1354.3.2
• Man gets bridegroom drunk and enjoys the bride. K1371.5
• Woman who engages false bridegroom for her daughter has plans go astray. Daughter is seduced. K1624
• Disguised man takes bride's place: deserts, leaving a she-goat in his place for the foolish bridegroom. (Cf. K1223.1.) K1836.3
• Substitute bridegroom to save husband from poison maiden. K1844.2
• Old woman substituted for bride in bridegroom's bed. K1911.1.5
• The false bridegroom (substitute bridegroom). Takes the place of the true bridegroom. K1915
• Handsome man substituted for ugly as bridegroom: wins bride. K1915.3
• Robber bridegroom. Robber marries girl under pretence of being a fine gentleman. K1916
• Penniless bridegroom pretends to wealth. K1917
• Stepsisters scatter sugar in girl's litter so that flies congregate; would-be bridegroom disgusted and tells bearers to abandon her in jungle. K2129.3
• Oath to marry daughters only into family with bridegroom for each daughter. M149.5
• Bridegroom to meet with disaster if he rides a certain elephant which comes to meet him. M340.4
• Numskull bridegroom unwittingly sings out phrases that thieves mistake to mean he has detected them. N611.3
• Runaway horse carries bride to her lover. Bridegroom unwittingly hires a horse belonging to his rival for his bride to ride to the wedding. A storm arises and the horse carries her to his master. N721
• Tiger seizes bride and bridegroom at threshold of house because groom has failed to worship deity before ceremony. (Cf. Q223.) Q557.7
• Abduction of bridegroom and killing of his bride planned as giantess's revenge. R10.4.1
• Princess humiliated by father after she has married loathly bridegroom. S322.1.4
• Token of betrothal sent to parents of a proposed bridegroom; acceptance means agreement to proposed match. T61.4.4
• King chooses bridegroom for daughter from boys' pictures. T131.1.2.2
• Bridegroom and his men come for the bride. T133.4
• Bride and bridegroom conducted to bridal bed. T137.2
• Bride wounded accidentally on way home. Fatal wound from bridegroom's sword. T152
• Bridegroom slain on way to bride. T153
• Bridegroom must be taught sexual intercourse. T166.2
• Bridegroom driven from bridal chamber by magic. Usually by hornets or wasps. T171
• Grateful dead man kills princess's monster husband. (Or otherwise renders her innocuous to the bridegroom.) T172.2.1
• Bridegroom magically impelled to leave his bride. T177
• Loathly bridegroom carried on back in basket by wife. T216
• Flight of maiden (bridegroom) to escape marriage. T311.1
• Cowardly bridegroom flees elephant and loses bride. W121.7
• "Bridegroom like the sun and bride like the moon." Z62.2
• Bridegroom inadvertently buys for bride cloth suitable only for widows. She supposes he has died. Z140.4