37 motifs match “daughters”  ·  back to the chapters

• Old man from sky as creator. – Old man with his wife comes from the sky. Are the first couple on earth. Have seven sons and seven daughters. Each son marries a daughter. A21.2
• Twin daughters of a god. A116.2.1
• Waves as girls, daughters or widows of the sea-god. A423
• Sun and moon as sisters, daughters of sky-god. A736.4
• Lakes are daughters of the gods. A920.1.14
• Mountains and hills are former sons, daughters of gods. A962.9
• Bad women from transformed hog and goose. Peter, having only one daughter, foolishly promises her to three men. He asks the Lord to create two others. This request is granted. The first creature he meets on two successive mornings he is to greet, and they will be transformed. He meets a hog and a goose. His two new daughters have these characteristics. A1371.3
• Daughters' sickness because of father's breaking tabu. C940.2
• Sons of God and Daughters of men. Before the flood angels have relations with human women: origin of giants. F531.6.1.1
• Amazons cut off left breast of daughters so that they can handle bow. F565.1.1
• The devil and his nine daughters. G303.11.5.1
• Wise carving of the fowl. Clever person divides it symbolically: head to head of house, neck to wife, wings to daughters, legs to sons; keeps rest for himself. H601
• Chief asks another for cutting of yams to complete his yam patch (daughter in marriage). Reply that seed yams for the year are shrivelled and old and it is too early for seedlings (his daughters are too young or too old). H611.3
• Who are really meek? Cows and daughters. H659.21
• Task: pasturing witch's cattle (really her daughters). Grateful animals give help (cf. B571.) H1199.12.2
• Choice: foolish son always with him or four wise daughters who will leave him. Latter chosen. J226.3
• The seven daughters of Humility. J901
• Literal penance: boy outwits pope. For three years not to drink wine, not to lie in bed, nor sleep with a prostitute. He goes to a convent, sleeps on eider down, and sleeps with the nuns. (God's daughters). When the pope condemns him he says he will go to his brother-in-law (Christ: he has wedded God's daughters). (Cf. J1764.5.) J1161.5
• God as a father-in-law. Nuns tell a man that they are daughters of God. "Come and marry me; I should like such a rich father-in-law." J1261.1.1
• Finger-drying contest won by deception. Three daughters are to wet hands; the first to have hands dry is to be the first to marry. The youngest waves her hands, exclaiming, "I don't want a man!" She wins. K95
• "Both?" The youth is sent to the house to get two articles. He meets the two daughters and calls back to the master. "Both?" "Yes, I said both!" replies the master. The youth has his will of both daughters. K1354.1
• Doctor prescribes sexual intimacy for widow's ills. She claims to prefer death. Change of heart on daughters' plea. Daughters adopt treatment as a preventive. K2052.4.1
• King Lear judgment. A king flattered by his elder daughters and angered by the seeming indifference, though real love, of the youngest, banishes the youngest and favors the elder daughters. M21
• Vow to marry off two daughters to first two men father looks at on the following morning. M138.1
• Oath to marry daughters only into family with bridegroom for each daughter. M149.5
• Dying monster's request and promise. Hero is to drink his blood, suck his eyes and brains, and give his heart to his loved one to eat. He will become marvelously strong and his wife will have three sons and four daughters with great powers. M257
• King in will foretells that daughters of his son shall be fruitful. M301.17.1
• The fourteen lucky daughters. The husband leaves his wife, who has given birth to fourteen girls, thinking he is persecuted by bad luck because of failure to have a son. On the seashore, the girls find precious stones. The wife, now prosperous, finds her husband among beggars. N231
• Men hear father threaten to marry daughters to first comers. N455.12
• Daughters flogged by parents. P237
• Bankrupt father sells his daughters in marriage to animals. (Sometimes to pay gambling debt.) (Cf. S215.) S221.1
• Daughters sacrificed to avert famine. S263.2.2
• Parents wooing one of seven daughters for their son. T69.2.1
• Daughters seduce drunken father. T411.2.1
• King with fifty sons (daughters). T586.2.1
• The big wedding. Giant with sixty daughters. X1071
• Seven daughters of Humility. Z71.5.6.13