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• Helpful animal foster brother. Hero reared by animal's parents. B311.1
• Human foster-child with animal qualities. B635
• Bear's foster child not used to sun and light. B635.1.2
• Magic object received from foster-parents. D815.7
• Magic object received from girl's foster-mother. D815.7.1
• Magic power learned from giant (as foster-father). D1727
• Foster-mother summoned by saying her name. D2074.2.4.1
• Deer foster parent of hero comes alive from its burial hill when youth returns to spot and carries him off to jungle again. E138.1
• Fairy foster-father. Guardian to mortal. F311.2
• Fairy foster-mother. (Cf. P270.) F311.3
• Water fairy as foster-mother. F311.3.1
• King about to kill foster-son due to his evil explanation of dream; both jump into sea and are drowned. F1041.16.7
• One foster brother rescues another from ogre. G551.4.1
• Kind foster-parents chosen rather than cruel parents. (Cf. J325.) J391
• Lamb chooses her foster-mother, the she-goat. Owes more to her than to her own mother, who has deserted her. J391.1
• Eye of king's foster-son damaged by sting of bee. Boy's friends demand eye of king's son in forfeit; king decrees instead destruction of swarm of bees so that guilty one may perish. J1179.14
• Dog buried instead of foster son, who is falsely reported killed so that he can safely be taken away. K525.6.1
• Lover's foster brother (friend) steals bride from wedding with unwelcome suitor. K1371.1.2
• False boasting of having killed his foster-brother makes his men follow the boaster. K1766.1
• Impostor tries to push foster brother into the water and then cuts rope so that he drifts alone out on the sea in boat without oars. K1931.1.1
• Treacherous foster brother. False accusation of theft. K2211.2
• Treacherous foster son. K2214.3.1
• Cowherd's daughter (foster child) as heroine. L113.1.6.1
• Mortal fosters fairy child to prevent destruction of crops. M242.1
• Curse by foster mother. M411.1.2
• Curse by girl in revenge of the murdering of her foster father. M411.11
• Undesired combat between sworn (blood) brothers (foster brothers). N731.2.2
• Wise giant as foster father of hero. N812.1
• Giantess as foster mother and helper of hero. N812.2
• Cook as foster father. N842.1
• Peasant as foster father. N854.1
• Smith as foster father. N855.1
• Forester as foster father. N856.1
• Cowherd as foster father. N856.2
• Queen commits adultery with husband's foster son. P29.2
• Foster relatives. P270
• Foster parents fined for blemish on child. P270.1
• Peasant and his wife as foster parents of exposed king's son. P270.2
• Parents kill son for slaying their foster son. P270.3
• Foster father. P271
• Magician as foster father. (Cf. N845.) P271.1
• Fisherman as foster father. P271.2
• Dwarf as foster father. (Cf. F451.5.1.) P271.3
• Living king's or nobleman's son as foster son of father's friend: considered an honor for the foster father. P271.4
• Foster father as constant helper. P271.5
• Foster children return foster father's love: avenge him, etc. P271.6
• King's son named after his father's foster father. P271.7
• Thor slays his foster father and takes himself the realm of Thrace. P271.8
• Foster mother. P272
• Witch foster mother. P272.1
• Foster mother as helper. (See all items under P272.) P272.2
• Former mistress as sons' foster mother. P272.3
• Foster brother. P273
• Faithful foster brother. P273.1
• Foster brothers avenge each other. P273.1.1
• King's son begs pardon for treacherous foster brother. P273.1.2
• Foster brother as constant adviser. P273.1.3
• Faithless foster brother. P273.2
• Promise of marriage to king's daughter induces warrior to fight foster brother. P273.2.1
• Earl's son seduces foster brother's sister and betrays himself. P273.2.2
• King's son falsely accuses foster brother of attempt to seduce his sister. P273.2.3
• Magic writing makes foster brothers enemies. P273.2.4
• Unable to hit man himself, enemy kills his foster brother. P273.3
• Children of Tuatha De Danann fostered by Milesians. P273.4
• Foster sister. P274
• Love between foster sister and foster brother. P274.1
• Foster son. P275
• Foster son commits adultery with foster father's wife. P275.1
• Stepfather as foster father. P281.1
• Grandfather as foster father. P291.1
• Grandmother as foster mother. P292.1
• Mother's brother as foster father. P293.1
• Punishment for killing foster brother. Q211.9.2
• King's foster brothers banished for lawlessness. Q431.2.3
• Punishment: taking snakes as foster children. Q594
• Cruel step- and foster relatives. S30
• Cruel foster father. S36
• Cruel foster son. (Cf. S22.1.1.) S37
• Murder of stepbrother (foster brother). S73.1.0.1
• Abandoned child cared for by grandmother (aunt, foster mother). S351.1
• Adopted child reproaches his foster mother and is returned to his real mother. T672
• Real mother preferred to foster mothers. Kid abandoned by his mother suckles the whole flock but is not satisfied. T675
• Children prefer foster mother. T675.1
• Virgin Mary as foster mother. V271
• Vision in which king sees whelp reared by him gather dogs of Ireland and Britain against him but suffer death in battle at last. The whelp is one of king's two foster sons. V515.2.1.1