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• Rat digs underground passage to girl's chamber for hero. B582.2.2
• Girl's animal lover slain by spying relatives. B610.1
• Tabu: male presence in girl's puberty-hut. C132
• Disenchantment by removing ring from under dead girl's tongue. Lover is thus freed from loving her. D765.1.1.1
• Magic object received from girl's foster-mother. D815.7.1
• Magic object found under dead girl's tongue. D849.6
• Blood drops from stone to indicate girl's innocence. D1318.5.5
• Mad horse becomes tame when girl's voice reaches his ears. D1442.1.1
• Treasure issues from girl's head. D1454.8
• Girl's blood vitalizes axe and it becomes a tiger. (Cf. D444.) D1594.5
• Girl's heart magically removed and fed to man draws her to him. D1905.1
• Wind controlled by girl's spirit. D2142.0.5
• Lover transported to girl's apartments in fortress by spirit. F414.1
• Girl's body-dirt is golden. F521.3.3.1
• Giant girl's face is an elbow length wide. F531.2.2.1
• Girl's hair spreads on ground so that it hides her. F555.3.1.1
• Camels having fallen from sky into girl's eyes; she tells her mother that some grains of sand have fallen down from sky. F615.3.1.2
• Girl's long hair as ladder into tower. Rapunzel. F848.1
• The danced-out shoes. Every morning girl's shoes are danced to pieces. F1015.1.1
• Devil takes form of girl's lover and takes advantage of her. She meets lover on way home, learns what has happened, dies. G303.12.5.7
• Garden filled with flowers on innocent girl's approach. H216.1
• Suitor's sincerity tested by reporting girl's death. All but one make excuses for not helping with funeral. H314.1
• Suitor test: garland thrown indicates girl's choice. H316.4
• Suitor test: learning girl's name. H323
• Apple thrown in race with bride. Distracts girl's attention and as she stops to pick it up, suitor passes her. (Atalanta.) H331.5.1.1
• Lover has head cut off at girl's desire. H333.1
• Who will find the most marvelous thing? Each finds some marvelous thing. It turns out, that to save the girl's life all the things must be used together. H355.0.1
• Chastity ordeal: poisonous snake around girl's neck. H412.5
• Found mortar taken to king reveals peasant girl's wisdom. Peasant finds mortar in his field and against his daughter's advice takes it to the king, who demands the pestle as well. Peasant laments that he has not followed daughter's advice. King summons her. H561.1.2
• Tasks assigned because of girl's (boy's) own foolish boast. H915
• Task imposed because of girl's foolish boast. H916.2
• Suitor hesitates to marry girl as immature (or too delicate). Girl's father protests, saying that she has had three children. J1279.3
• Numskull told to attract girl's attention by throwing pebble at her flings large stone which breaks her head. J2461.9
• The dead girl frightens father and lover. The girl dies. The lover, thinking that she is asleep, talks to her. When he hears the father speak of her as dead he is frightened that he has talked to the dead. The father hears the lover talk and thinks that it is the girl's spirit. Both flee. J2621
• Thief pretends to be girl's bridegroom and calls for her. K311.8.3
• Golden deer sent to entice girl's guardians away, so she can be abducted. K341.7.3
• Old woman intercepts letter and takes girl's place in man's bed. K1317.2.1
• Man disguised as pregnant woman admitted to girl's bed. K1321.1.1
• Man wishes to learn and gains entrance to learned girl's presence in woman's disguise. K1321.1.3
• Entrance into girl's (man's) room (bed) by trick. K1340
• Man in magic hiding box bought by girl's father. K1342.1.1
• Other means of entering into girl's (man's) room (bed). K1349
• Disguise to enter girl's (man's) room. (Cf. K1310–1329, passim.) K1349.1
• Disguise as madman to enter girl's room. (Cf. K1818.3.) K1349.1.2
• Trickster masking as girl's father advises intercourse with trickster. She obeys. K1354.1.1
• Beggar buys right to sleep before the girl's door, at foot of bed, in the bed. Usually with jewel. K1361
• Transformed person sleeps before girl's door, at foot of bed, in the bed. Is disenchanted upon admission to the bed. K1361.1
• Monkey instead of girl in floating basket: hermit made laughing-stock. He has persuaded girl's foolish father to place her in the basket. Prince takes girl and leaves monkey in her place. (Cf. K1333, K1674.) K1625
• Spying parent jolted in basket. A lover is let down into a girl's room at night in a basket. The spying parent stumbles into the basket and is jolted about by the lover's confederate. The parent thinks the devil has got him and leaves the lovers in peace. K1663
• Girl's sham threat in order to evade husband till lover returns. K1771.6
• Penniless wooer: money in hand. An uncle gives the boy a coin and food to hold while he woos for him. He tells the girl's father that the boy has a piece of money in hand and plenty to eat. Wins the girl. K1917.2
• Man wins girl's love by pretending to wealth and nobility. Deception is discovered and impostor is banished. K1917.5
• Sham wise man (girl's confederate) interprets pretended dream for girl. Insists she be allowed to marry man of her own choice. K1956.6
• Stepsisters scatter sugar in girl's litter so that flies congregate; would-be bridegroom disgusted and tells bearers to abandon her in jungle. K2129.3
• Broken oath causes girl's hand to wither. (Cf. D2062.) M101.4
• Knife accidentally strikes girl's throat and kills her. N331.1.1
• Priest frightens boy by tying girl's corpse to bell-rope. In revenge the boy puts the body in the priest's bed. Priest flees. Dies from injuries. N384.8
• King overhears girl's boast as to what she should do as queen. Marries her. N455.4
• Gods discuss means of settling dispute among girl's suitors. Venus has girl make her own choice. N817.1
• Undesired suitor hiding under girl's bed is killed. Q411.2
• Monstrous births as punishment for girl's pride. (Cf. M437, Q331, T550.) Q552.5
• Girl's hand withers as punishment for broken oath to God. Q559.5.2
• Lovers elope to prevent girl's marriage to undesired fiancé. R225.2
• Falling in love at receipt of girl's amulet. T11.4.7
• Girl and boy promised to each other by parents both die when they see each other after girl's marriage to another. T86.4
• Supernatural lover performs girl's work. T91.3.1
• Parricide because of father-son rivalry for girl's love. T92.9.1
• Ravished girl's virginity restored by Virgin Mary. T313
• Ravished girl's virginity restored by saint. T313.1
• Girl's virginity spared by knight when he sees her surrounded by the Virgin and her train. In her straits the girl has prayed for help. T321.3
• Girl's virginity saved by the kindness of an emissary. Makes the lord believe she is a relative. T324
• Young man sleeps on girl's mat without touching her to signify his desire. T356
• Devil causes girl to become prostitute. Destroys the girl's family and begets on her a boy. T451
• Black nipples of girl's breasts reveal her loss of virginity. T494
• Girl's blood examined to see if she is pregnant. T579.2
• Red as blood, white as snow, (and black as a raven). Usually applied to the cheeks, skin, and hair of a girl's lover. Z65.1.1