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• Creation match between goddess-wife, god-husband. A85
• Moon, sun are sister and brother, wife and husband. A736.1.4.2
• Star-husband. Star takes mortal maiden as wife. A762.1
• Of first parents husband so hideous he is kept hidden. A1279.1
• Origin of unrestricted sexual intercourse between husband and wife. A1352.1
• Why the wild boar is hunted by man for food: once a faithless wife killed by her husband. A1422.3
• Why woman is master of her husband. (Cf. A1372.9.) A1557
• Origin of code of conduct between husband and wife. A1571
• Why husband and wife shall not exchange hats. A1571.1
• Deity's wife creates mosquitoes to drive her husband out of jungle. A2034.1
• Why tigers do not kill women who run away after quarreling with their husbands. A2499.1
• The cat as vixen's husband. Frightens the other wild animals invited by the vixen. (Cf. K2324.) B281.9.1
• Treacherous wife forces husband to kill helpful dog. B335.1.1
• Animals warn wife of husband's danger. B521.4
• Animal wins husband for mistress. B582.1.2
• Animal husband provides characteristic animal food. B600.2
• Relatives kill animal-husband but wife throws herself into pyre. B691
• Husband ties a cock near wife's feet: snake-parasite in her stomach comes out to catch the cock and is killed by husband. B784.2.1.2
• Man commends wife to devil. Devil takes the charge seriously and guards woman's chastity during husband's absence. C12.4
• Wife curses wicked husband: "May devil take you!" Devil does. (Cf. M432.) C12.5.7
• Wish for supernatural husband (wife) realized. (Cf. C26.) C15
• Wish for star-husband realized. C15.1
• Wish for tree as husband realized. Tree comes to life. C15.2
• Wish for animal husband realized. Girl says she will marry a certain animal. Latter appears and carries her off. (Cf. C15.) C26
• Tabu: looking at supernatural wife on certain occasion. (Mélusine). The husband must not see the wife when she is transformed to an animal. C31.1.2
• Tabu: husband looking at supernatural wife in childbirth. (Cf. C151.) C31.1.4
• Unfaithful husband loses magic wife. C31.12
• Tabu: offending supernatural husband. (Cf. C36.) C32
• Tabu: looking at supernatural husband. C32.1
• Tabu: wife seeing transformed husband. C32.1.1
• Tabu: showing surprise when supernatural husband resumes his true shape. C32.1.2
• Tabu: questioning supernatural husband. C32.2
• Tabu: asking name of supernatural husband. (Cf C430.) C32.2.1
• Tabu: asking where supernatural husband comes from. (Cf. C421.) C32.2.2
• Tabu: asking for caste of supernatural husband. C32.2.3
• Tabu: not to touch too soon supernatural husband on visit. C32.3
• Tabu: offending animal husband. (Cf. C32). C36
• Tabu: burning animal husband. C36.1
• Tabu: spying on animal husband. C36.2
• Tabu: failure to sleep with guest unaccompanied by husband. C119.2
• Tabu: kissing supernatural husband. (Cf. C32.) C121
• Tabus for girl going to her husband. C161
• Tabu connected with husband's or wife's relatives. C170
• Tabu: woman not to touch husband's drum (magic object). C181.1
• Tabu: bride eating on journey to husband. C232.1
• Tabu: eating food of transformed husband. C243
• Tabu: goddess seeing mortal husband naked. C313.1.1
• Tabu: revealing secret of supernatural husband. C421
• Woman (fairy) causes twofold death of mortal husband who utters her name. C435.1.1.1
• Tabu: women marrying until hero has chosen their husbands. C566.4
• Forsaken merman. Tabu: association of fairy's (merman's, etc.) human wife (husband) with human relatives. C713
• Tabu: wife of supernatural husband seeing old home. C713.2
• Tabu: beast-husband staying too long at home: becomes sick. C713.3.1
• Loss of wife (husband) for breaking tabu. C932
• Repeated transformations to deceive wives. A husband thus makes each of his many wives believe that he is always with her. D616
• Transformation to husband's (lover's) form to seduce woman. D658.2
• Transformation: wife to mistress. Transformed wife substitutes for husband's mistress. D659.7
• Transformation to cure inconstant husband. He falls in love with another woman: his wife changes him to negro. He then falls in love with negress: wife changes him to ass. He then falls in love with she-ass. Finally restored to his original form. D662
• Girl destroys crab shape of husband and disenchants him permanently. D719.2
• Loathly husband a god in disguise. D733.3
• Girl disenchants animal husband by enduring his embraces without fear. D735.4.1
• Girl disenchants her tiger-husband by putting a garland around his neck, sprinkling sand and water over him. D789.9
• Olive branch insures fidelity of husband. Wife to beat him with it. (Cf. D954.) D1355.8
• Magic sword protects woman from fairy lover in husband's absence. (Cf. D1081, F301.) D1386.1
• Magic belt protects against husband. (Cf. D1057.) D1387.3
• Magic object draws lover (husband) to woman. D1425
• Magic hairs summon husband. (Cf. D991.) D1425.2
• Sorceress to lose her magic power as soon as one of her transformed husbands seizes her and swallows her. D1749.1
• Future husband (wife) revealed in dream. D1812.3.3.9
• Whale husband makes wife's eyes impervious to sea water. D1841.4.5
• Husband's love magically turns to hatred. D1908.1
• Three-fold magic sleep. Husband (lover) put to sleep by false bride. Only on the third night (the last chance) he wakes. D1971
• Lover's magic sleep at rendezvous. A lover (husband) is to meet his mistress but magically oversleeps. D1972
• Forgotten fiancée. Young husband visiting his home breaks tabu and forgets his wife. Later she succeeds in reawakening his memory. (For details of the ways in which the memory is lost and regained see D2004 and D2006. D2003
• Husband magically forgets wife. D2003.1
• Magic forgetting of wife when husband removes shirt she has given him. D2004.6
• Forgotten fiancée reawakens husband's memory. D2006.1
• Forgotten fiancée reawakens husband's memory by detaining lovers through magic. Heroine takes up residence near home of her forgetful husband. She is apparently going to permit a lover to sleep with her when she detains him by having him try to place some magic birds on their roost. They continue to fall down throughout the night. (Or the lover is left magically sticking to a calf's tail or other object.) The thwarted lover tells of his experience, and in this way the attention of the husband is gained. D2006.1.1
• Forgotten fiancée reawakens husband's memory by serving as milkmaid and talking to calf. D2006.1.2
• Forgotten fiancée reawakens husband's memory by having magic doves converse. D2006.1.3
• Forgotten fiancée buys place in husband's bed and reawakens his memory. D2006.1.4
• Forgotten wife gives food to beggar: husband's memory reawakened. D2006.1.10
• Lonesome wife scares robbers by making it appear that her husband is at home. D2031.6.3
• Resuscitation of wife by husband giving up half his remaining life. (Sometimes vice versa). E165
• Husband resuscitated after wife's nose is cut off and thrown over grave. E165.2
• Husband advised how to resuscitate his wife: lift her up and turn her around so her head rests upon the brick which had been under her feet. E181.1
• Dead wife haunts husband on second marriage. E221.1
• Dead wife returns to reprove husband's second wife. E221.2
• Dead wife returns to reprove husband's second wife for abusing her step-children. E221.2.1
• Dead husband returns to reprove wife's second husband (lover). E221.3
• Dead husband returns to protest wife's spending his money. E221.4
• Dead wife torments husband who has let her die of neglect. E221.5
• Dead husband's friendly return. E321
• Dead husband sends his ring to his wife. E321.1
• Dead husband returns and lives with his wife. He is invisible to others. (Cf. F378.) E321.2
• Dead husband returns, helps wife knit socks, piece quilts. She shows his work as proof. E321.2.1
• Dead husband returns, asks wife to make him coffee. E321.3
• Ghost often visits his widow and her new husband. E321.4
• Dead wife returns and bears children for husband. E322.1
• Dead wife returns to wake husband. E322.2