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• Grandfather as creator. A1.2
• Father-god. A103
• Goddess rebels against her father for forbidding her marriage. A106.1.1
• Father of the gods. A111.2
• God dwells with his grandfathers. A111.3.1
• God from father-daughter incest. Adonis. A112.1.1
• Sun-father. A221
• Sun father-in-law. A226
• Culture hero son of mortal (half-mortal) father. A511.1.5
• Sun as father of culture hero. A512.4
• Twin culture heroes sired by two fathers. A515.1.1.1
• Father and son as culture heroes. A515.2
• Culture hero (god) slays his grandfather. A525.2
• Universe as offspring of creator. The Sky Father begets various parts of the universe by his various wives. A615
• World parents: sky-father and earth-mother as parents of the universe. The sky-father descends upon the earth-mother and begets the world. A625
• Heaven-mother – earth-father. A625.1
• Raising of the sky. Originally the sky is near the earth (usually because of the conjunction of the sky-father and earth-mother). It is raised to its present place. A625.2
• Deity clothes his father the sky after he has separated him from earth. A625.2.4
• Stars as children of sun eaten by their father. Hence no stars in the day. A764.1.1
• How the earth became oblong. God the Father situated on one side of the earth, the Son on the other. A851
• In response to Adam's prayer, God sends him to earth to be father of mankind. A1285.1.1
• First son who died before his father after the Flood. A1335.7
• Son accidentally kills father, who returns to life as cuckoo and tells people when to sow grain. A2275.6
• Origin of tree for crucifixion of Christ. Planted by Adam's son on the grave of primeval father. A2632.2
• Mermaid has son by human father. B81.2.1
• Llewellyn and his dog. Dog has saved child from serpent. Father sees bloody mouth, thinks the dog has eaten the child, and kills the dog. B331.2
• Boy kills his animal father for reward. B631.0.2
• Bear says he is boy's father; asks food. B635.1.3
• Tabu: girl eating before being called by father. C231.1
• Tabu imposed on son by father before death. C901.1.1
• Daughters' sickness because of father's breaking tabu. C940.2
• Son disenchants animal father by enduring his caresses without fear. D735.4.2
• Magic object received from father. D815.2
• Magic object received from father-in-law. D815.5
• Magic object received from grateful father of redeemed snake. D817.1.2
• Magic object found on father's grave. D842.2
• Exchange of common cow for gold-dropping cow made by daughter when her father stops at her home for the night. D871.1.1
• Sword bursts in son's hand when he is about to kill his father. D1317.6.1
• Magic power from Death. Death as godfather. (Cf. D1725.1.) D1724
• Magic power learned from giant (as foster-father). D1727
• Possession of magic knowledge and witchcraft from having eaten of father-of-man's corpse. D1735.4
• Father feels that son is in danger. (Cf. D1812.0.4, D1812.5.1.1.4.) D1813.0.3
• Father knows of son's death from far away. D1813.0.3.1
• Longing of human child of sky-mother to visit father on earth. D2006.2.1
• Sorrowing father magically restored as lost son approaches. He had lost strength, sight and hearing when son left home. D2161.4.10.4
• Ghost of father slaps son's face; a cancer grows there. E265.1.2
• Ghost family visits grave of father. E324.2
• Dead father's friendly return. E327
• Dead father returns to daughter to stop her weeping. (Cf. E324.) E327.1
• Dead father returns to encourage daughter in childbirth. E327.2
• Dead father returns to clear son's name of crime. E327.3
• Ghost of father returns to rebuke child. E327.4
• Dead father returns in form of bird. (Cf. E322.4.) E327.5
• Sword received from summoned dead father. E373.2
• Father summoned to get his sword. E387.2.1
• Child cursed by father cannot rest in grave. E412.4
• Father will die when daughter marries. (Cf. E765.4.3.) E765.4.1
• Father will die when daughter bears son. (Cf. E765.4.1.) E765.4.3
• Father (and mother) will die on same day as daughter. E765.4.3.1
• Right half of son resembles mortal father; left half, fairy father. F305.2.1
• Fairy foster-father. Guardian to mortal. F311.2
• Fairy father carries off child of mortal mother. F326
• Old man as godfather to underground folk. F372.2.1
• Water-spirit returns kidnapped man in return for release of his long hair. Victim's father has wound the hair around his fingers. F420.5.2.2.1
• Dwarf as godfather. F451.5.1.1
• Dwarf king prevents a father from shooting his son. F451.5.1.16
• Father given carved wooden image in lieu of son stolen by dwarfs. F451.5.2.3.1
• Dwarf promises money and property to mortal father for hand of daughter. F451.5.18.1
• Mountain-man as godfather. F460.4.7
• Sending to the older. Old person refers inquirer to his father, who refers to his father, and so on for several generations. F571.2
• Twelve year old hero captures town of father's enemy. F611.3.2.6
• Man senseless from grief at hearing of father's death; one doesn't feel that he cuts himself with his knife, the other presses dice so that he bleeds. F1041.21.5
• Father of goddess as cannibal. G11.0.1.2
• Abandoned infant lives by eating corpse of murdered father. (Cf. S350.) G25
• Children flee from father who turns cannibal. G31
• Father takes his daughter to cannibal to be eaten. G75
• Man forced to eat dead father's heart goes mad. G91.1
• Man forced to eat dead father's heart struck dumb. G91.1.1
• The devil's son is with his mother at night in his father's place. G303.11.1.1
• Ogre's daughter killed together with her father. G512.0.2
• Recognition by brother king of lost brother brought about by model of their father's palace which lost brother builds of clay. H16.1
• Recognition of brothers brought about by bouquet of flowers tied as father's gardener used to do. H16.3
• Recognition by shoes with which the father had once beaten his son. H36.1.1
• Father recognizes son after having thrown him in oven. H165
• Suitor tests. A suitor is put to severe tests by his prospective bride or father-in-law. H310
• Suitors contest with bride's father in shooting. H331.4.1
• Suitor contest: race with bride's father. H331.5.2
• Suitor test: duel with father-in-law. H332.3
• Suitor task: avenging bride's father's death before marriage. H335.1
• Prospective father-in-law requires that suitor for his daughter's hand visit foreign country (otherworld?) to learn feats of arms. H336.1
• Bride test: sewing a shirt for bridegroom's father. H383.2.3
• Bride test: kindness – father-in-law disguised as beggar. H384.1
• Father tests. Test as to who is unknown father of child. H480
• Infant picks out his unknown father. H481
• Infant indicates his unknown father by handing him an apple. H481.1
• Baby picks out his disguised father from a crowd by handing him a bow. H481.1.1
• Animals compete as messenger to call father of new-born child. Their voices are tried. H483
• Test of unknown father: gold on street. Princess has gold put on street leading to her. The man who rides over the gold-covered street without noticing is the father of her child. H485
• Test of paternity. Child tested to see if it is child of certain father. H486
• Test of paternity: adhesion of blood. Blood of real son will adhere to dead father's bones. H486.1