40 motifs match “girls”  ·  back to the chapters

• Waves as girls, daughters or widows of the sea-god. A423
• Girls dancing in heaven. A661.4
• Pleiades girls who died of grief. A773.3
• Why Zuñi girls rub flour on their faces as they grind. A1687.1
• Living boys or girls transformed into plants. A2617.1
• Tabu: opening gourd in which star-wife is kept. When curious girls do so, she flies up to sky. C31.1.5
• Tabu: sexual relationship with girls of nobility while having sore on body. C110.1
• Seven girls in guise of seven parrots come to boy who has spurned them. D658.3.3
• Tree opens its trunk to give shelter to abandoned girls. (Cf. D950.) D1556.2
• Life token: rings will exchange places on girls' fingers. E761.7.14
• Mountain-men as lovers of herding-girls. F460.4.1.1
• Country of little girls. F709.2
• Girls eat their sister. G73
• Devil (gentleman) invites girls into his sleigh. G303.7.1.2.3
• Swinging ogre. Girls who swing their lovers over pit, cut rope, and later devour them. G327
• Bride chosen from girls assembled at feast. (Cf. H311.) H362
• Bride test: thrifty cutting of cheese. Three girls tested. First eats rind and all, second cuts away good cheese, third cuts away just enough. H381.2
• Test of resourcefulness: to swing seventy girls until they are tired. H506.5
• Suitors receive enigmatic answers. Girls answer in single words, which, when arranged in certain order, show that they accept. H593
• Melons ripe and overripe analogous to girls ready for marriage. H611.1
• Test of sex of girl masking as man: ball thrown into lap. Girls spread legs to catch it; men not. H1578.1.4
• Test of sex of girl masking as man: nuts and apples offered. Men put them in their shirts, girls into their handkerchiefs. H1578.1.5
• Girls must pay for young man's virginity. Girls repulsed by man climb in his window at night. Become pregnant and demand marriage. Branded as prostitutes and must pay the man. J1174.4
• Three girls distressed by seemingly impossible task of going and returning together – one in half month, other in fifteen days, other in seven plus eight days. J2033
• Partridge plays hide-and-seek with girls while fox eats the curds they are taking to market. K341.26
• Monkey killed by girls who pretend to wash its buttocks. K831.2
• Seduction by sham beauty test. Trickster dupes two girls into submitting to test. Both seduced. K1339.4
• Trickster and girls play obscene tricks on one another. K1392
• Girls keep up appearances to deceive suitors as to their desirability. K1984
• The lisping sisters. The girls have been warned against speaking, but forget and are found out. K1984.1
• Tiger-ogress pretends to be girls' mother: explains tail as boil. K2011.2
• Curse: "What I carry may you carry; what you carry may I carry." Cat thus causes ungrateful pregnant woman to bear cats and herself to bear twin girls. M437.1
• Wish for exalted husband realized. Girls make wish that they may marry king (prince, etc.). It so happens. N201
• 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
• Girls going in the wood for nuts have adventures. N771.2
• Devil takes shape of old woman to punish impious nuns. Introduces them to three youths disguised as girls and brings about nuns' seduction. Nuns are stoned to death. Q220.1.1
• Thirty young girls fall in love with a young man. T27.1
• King deflowers all twelve year old girls. T161.0.1
• Girls drown selves to save their virginity. T326.1
• X751.Marriage forbidden outside the parish. An order is read in church forbidding the young people to marry girls from other parishes. X751