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• Creator's grandmother. Casually mentioned in the course of the creation myth. A31
• Angels arrange course of heavenly bodies. A703
• Daily course of sun across sky. A726
• Opposite of present. Everything on the earth – courses of rivers, height of mountains, human reproduction, etc. – are at first the reverse of the present condition. A855
• Origin of sexual intercourse. A1352
• Origin of unrestricted sexual intercourse between husband and wife. A1352.1
• Means of persuading persons to intercourse. A1352.2
• Former intercourse by navel. A1352.3
• Origin of menstruation – Eve and the serpent. It is a punishment because Eve had intercourse with the serpent. A1355.1
• Sexual intercourse of animals. A2496
• Offspring of human and animal intercourse. B636
• Cocks kept from intercourse with hens have tenderest meat. B754.5
• Peacock pregnant without intercourse. Male spits up semen and female eats it. This as a curse. (Cf. A2236.5.) B754.6
• Tabu: sexual intercourse. C110
• Tabu: sexual intercourse with unearthly beings. (Cf. C122.) C112
• Tabu: sexual intercourse in sacred precinct. (Cf. Q551.3.) C116
• Nuptial tabu. Man and wife forbidden intercourse for definite time. C117
• Tabu: intercourse with resuscitated wife for particular number of days. C117.1
• Miscellaneous tabus concerning sexual intercourse. C119
• Tabu: sexual intercourse at certain time. C119.1
• Tabu: sexual intercourse during illness. C119.1.1
• Tabu: sexual intercourse on Sabbath. C119.1.2
• Tabu: intercourse at hunting season. C119.1.3
• Tabu: sexual intercourse during religious festival (18 days). C119.1.4
• Tabu: intercourse before worship. C119.1.5
• Tabu: intercourse at night. C119.1.6
• Tabu: sexual intercourse during menses. C142
• Transformation by sexual intercourse. D565.5.1
• Disenchantment by sexual intercourse. Man disenchants woman in form of a bear. D743
• Course of wild hunt. E501.14
• Wild hunt courses in particular direction. E501.14.2
• Wild hunt avoided by getting out of its course. E501.17.5.2
• Fairy queen's beauty temporarily destroyed by intercourse with mortal. F304.2
• Incubus. A male demon who comes in sleep and has sexual intercourse with a woman. F471.2
• Giant digs trench for course of Severn River. F531.6.6.3
• Poison damsel. Woman nourished on poison is fatal to her husbands. Sometimes the poisoning is from fatal look or breath, sometimes from intercourse. F582
• Witch as hare allows self to be coursed by dogs for pay or for sport. G211.2.7.1
• Witches have sexual intercourse with devil or his minions. G243.3
• Satan's sexual intercourse with Eve. G303.12.7.1
• Riddle of the course of the sun. H725
• Task: changing the course of time. H1026
• Rocks falling together and thread entering needle's eye suggest sexual intercourse: hence its beginning. J86
• Consider difficulties of course you are about to undertake. J751
• Imagined intercourse, imagined payment. A woman demands money for a visit which she dreams of having had from a merchant. She is shown the money in a mirror. J1551.1
• The father of Noah's sons. The fool seeks advice as to how to answer this question: Who is the father of Stoffer's three sons? Stoffer, of course. Then who was the father of Noah's three sons? Stoffer. J2713
• Obstacle race between deer and hare. Hare accused of removing obstacles from his course. K11.9
• Bargain: if the sun reverses its course. Because of an eclipse the sun is held to have done so, and Atreus becomes king. K194
• Trickster masking as girl's father advises intercourse with trickster. She obeys. K1354.1.1
• Seduction of person ignorant of sexual intercourse. K1363
• Long distance sexual intercourse. Trickster by magic has intercourse with woman across stream. K1391
• Student extends his course so as to enjoy the professor's wife. K1594
• Military strategy: city won by turning river from its course through city. Enemy soldiers march through empty bed into city. K2369.6
• Ship's course left to the winds that it might be carried where fate wills it. N118.1
• Criminal accidentally detected: "that is the first" – sham wise man. The sham wise man employed to detect theft is feasted. As the servants enter with food he remarks to his wife, "That is the first" (course). (Or allowed to feast for three days remarks at end of first day "That is the first.") The servants, thinking they are detected, confess. N611.1
• Refraining from sexual intercourse as penance. (Cf. C110.) Q535.3
• King demands intercourse with woman in childbed. S185.2
• The relative pleasures of love. Do men or women have the greater pleasure in sexual intercourse? Man who has been transformed to woman answers that women have the greater pleasure. The goddess blinds him as punishment. T2
• Bride afraid of intercourse refuses consummation until judge orders it in court. T166
• Bridegroom must be taught sexual intercourse. T166.2
• Death from intercourse. T182
• Jealous husband objects to wife's enjoyment of intercourse: thinks she has had previous experience. T257.8
• Wife withholds intercourse from husband to enforce demand. Cf. Aristophanes' Lysistrata. T283
• T317.0.1 Life shortened by incontinence. 300-year old man has had intercourse every two years. T317.0.1
• In answer to maiden's prayer saint changes boat's course and guides it to another place. T321.6
• Bestiality. Intercourse of a human being and an animal. T465
• Necrophilism: sexual intercourse with dead human body. T466
• Intercourse with sleeping girl. T475.2.1
• Conception from extraordinary intercourse. T517
• Conception from intercourse with demon. T539.3
• King buried with immense treasure in the ground of an artificially dried river; later the normal course of the river is restored. V67.3.1
• Saints blessed with ability to discourse in the native idioms of the people whom they visit. V223.5
• The little old lady who swallowed a fly. She swallows a spider to eat up the fly, a bird to eat up the spider, a dog to eat the bird, a cow to eat the dog. "The little old lady swallowed a horse – she died, of course." Z49.14
• Seven years as length of course in school. Z72.4
• Symbolism: needle and thread – sexual intercourse. Z186