56 motifs match “chaste”  ·  back to the chapters

• Wild animal will not harm chaste woman. B771.0.1
• Magic power of chaste woman. D1714.1
• Chaste maiden at prayer vanishes from would-be ravisher's embrace. D1714.1.1
• Magic object points out unchaste woman. H411
• Magic stone as chastity test. At foot of bed: cannot be stepped on by unchaste woman. (Cf. D931.) H411.1
• Stone breaks when unchaste woman looks at it. H411.1.1
• Magic tree as chastity test. Cannot be climbed by unchaste woman. (Cf. D950.) H411.2
• Magic drinking horn (cup) as chastity test. (Cf. D1171.6.) Unchaste woman cannot drink from cup. H411.4
• Drinking bitter water as chastity test. Water will poison the unchaste. H411.4.1
• Magic pin as chastity test. If it floats, woman is chaste. (Cf. D1182.) H411.5
• Magic chair as chastity test. Unchaste woman cannot sit in it till bidden. (Cf. D1151.2.) H411.6
• Mantle as chastity test. Will not fit unchaste woman. (Cf. D1053.) H411.7
• Magic bridge as chastity test. Cannot be crossed by unchaste. (Cf. D1258.) H411.8
• Magic statue as chastity test. Moves eyes in presence of unchaste woman. (Cf. D1268.) H411.9
• Magic idol as chastity test. Turns black in presence of unchaste woman. Lights up in presence of chaste woman. H411.9.1
• Unchaste woman dips arm into the water: skin boiled away. H411.11.1
• Magic harp as chastity test. Plays out of tune at approach of unchaste girl. (Cf. D1231.) H411.12
• Chastity ordeal: passing under magic rod. Unchaste woman bears twins. (Cf. D1254.2.) H412.1
• Special powers of chaste woman. H413
• Special power of chaste woman: blowing out candle with one puff and relighting it with another. H413.1
• Special power of chaste woman: making ball of water. H413.2
• Special power of chaste woman: carrying water in sieve. H413.3
• Special power of chaste woman: raising fallen elephant. H413.4
• If princess is chaste her weight will be only that of five flowers; if not, normal. H413.6
• Veil as chastity index. Flowers on veil fade on head of unchaste. H431.3
• Apple as chastity index: shines as long as woman is chaste. (Cf. D981.1.) H434.1
• Young man advised to choose as wife a girl whose mother was chaste. J482.3
• Man breaks promise to sleep chastely with woman. Decision: deceived fiance is to sleep with seducer's wife, if he ever marries. J1174.2.1
• Why God has few friends. Priest consoles sick man by saying that God chastens those whom he loves. J1261.1.2
• The entrapped suitors. (Lai l'épervier.) The chaste wife has them one at a time undress and hide. The husband and guests come and chase them off. K1218.1
• The entrapped suitors: the chaste wife tricks them into casks. The husband takes the casks to the marketplace where he opens them. K1218.1.1
• The entrapped suitors: the chaste wife has them caught. Forces them to work for her. K1218.1.2
• Chaste woman sends man's own wife as substitute (without his knowledge). Then the first woman's husband is substituted for the importunate lover, who has his own wife seduced. K1223.2.1
• Chaste woman substitutes corpse for herself in the bed of an insistent suitor. K1223.4
• Chaste woman refers lover to her husband for permission. K1231
• Chaste woman refers lover to his wife. K1231.1
• Cut-off finger proves wife's chastity. A chaste wife substitutes a maidservant for seducer. A finger and ring are cut off as proof of wife's unfaithfulness (chastity wager with husband). Refuted by husband, who knows they are not his wife's. K1512.1
• Tables turned on procuress by chaste wife. The old woman is enticed into the wife's room, beaten, and driven forth naked. K1683
• "Chaste" woman surprised in adultery. K2063
• Woman with three hundred sixty-five children. Punished for self-righteous condemnation of unchaste girl. L435.2.1
• Chaste woman promises herself to her lover when the rocks leave the coast. (They are moved by magic.) M261
• Chaste woman promises herself to her lover when he can make a garden bloom in winter. (Cf. H352.) M261.1
• Brother flogs unchaste sister to death. (Cf. Q243.) Q458.2.1
• Penance: adulteress masks as monk and lives chastely in monastery. (Cf. Q241.) Q537.1
• Cleric tempts self among beautiful women, lives chastely. Q537.2
• Father condemns daughter to death because he believes her unchaste. S322.1.3
• Woman prefers to remain chaste rather than keep an impotent husband. (Cf. T271.1.) T311.2
• Man and woman in chaste love for twenty-five years. T317.5
• 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
• Chaste sleeping together. T350
• Chaste sleeping together to torment woman. Man remains utterly impassive. T354
• Chaste sleeping together with six sisters-in-law one by one. T355
• Adulterous love changed into a chaste one. T372
• 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