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• Demigod son of king's unmarried sister (daughter) by god. A511.1.3.1
• Demigod son of king's unmarried sister by her brother. A511.1.3.2
• Rainbow is a transformed king; the lesser rainbow is the king's wife. A791.5
• Spring from innocent king's blood. A941.5.8
• Five great roads of Ireland "discovered" on night of king's birth. A994
• Origin of a king's family from a fairy prince. A1653.2
• Flies on Christ's body rewarded. They look like nails and prevent more nails being driven. They may eat at the king's table. (Cf. A2545.1.) A2221.2.1
• Lizard loses lawsuit: must bob his head. Lizard and ant accused of theft of king's crow. Ant pours boiling water down lizard's throat. When case is tried, lizard cannot talk but only bobs head up and down. Adjudged guilty and condemned to bob his head eternally. (Cf. A2474.1.) A2255.2
• Demi-coq crows in king's body, when the king eats him. B171.1.1
• Magic toad under king's bed causes sickness. B177.1.1
• Faithful cows lose milk at king's death. B301.6.3
• Tabu: asking for king's daughter in marriage. C196
• Tabu: eloping with king's daughter. C567.1
• Only peacock on the steeple of the king's golden temple can be accepted as dowry. C655.1
• Disenchantment by maiden sitting at head of enchanted king's bed on morning of St. John's day. D759.7
• Milk of two king's children protects hero in dragon fight. (Cf. B11.11, D1043.) D1385.14
• Magic bone beats king's face. (Cf. D1007.) D1401.9
• Diamond in snake king's forehead in hero's pocket opens lake waters to reveal a pathway to underground palace. (Cf. D1071.) D1551.7.1
• Saint changes vicious king's heart to peaceful thoughts. D2163.5.2
• King's crown in well in otherworld. F166.4.1
• King's crown stolen from fairyland. F355
• Demons seek to carry off king's soul. F402.1.5.1
• Tree in the midst of king's hall. F811.4.3
• Jeweled crown suspended in air over king's head. F828.1
• Fat of crow as remedy for king's wounds. F959.3.5
• Shower of gold and silver rains upon king's ship at birth of his children. F960.1.1.2
• Ogress bathes in pool, is transformed into beautiful maiden, and becomes king's favorite wife. G264.0.1
• Witch disguised becomes queen, devours king's horses nightly. G264.3.1
• Tokens sent to jailor as warrant of king's authority. H82.1
• Saber with king's name inscribed on it. H86.1
• Outcast wife (children) builds castle identical with king's, invites him, and is recognized. H153
• Elephant raises girl three times to be king's wife. H171.1.1
• Clever youth (maiden) answers king's inquiry in riddles. (Cf. H561.4.) H583
• Maiden (to king): The house has neither eyes nor ears. (No child at window nor dog in yard to announce king's approach: he therefore finds her not dressed to receive him.) H583.8
• Riddle: how much is my beard (king's) worth? H712
• How much is king's beard worth? The months July, August, and September. H712.1
• How much is king's beard worth? A May rain (three rains in summer). H712.2
• Task: counting palm trees within view of king's palace. H1118.3
• Task: stealing king's horse as he rides on it. H1151.2.2
• Task: stealing tray from king's bedside. H1151.3.1
• Task: stealing three pearls from king's heavily guarded treasury. H1151.13.5
• Task: procuring four full-grown tigers to guard four gates of king's palace. H1154.3.7.1
• Task: retrieving king's falcon. H1154.7.1
• Task: mouse to fight single-handed with king's state elephant and destroy it. H1161.3.1
• Task: slaying king's son so that father will not die. H1162.2
• Task: catching devastating witch who haunts king's best garden. H1191.2
• Task: knocking off single fruit from king's tree. H1199.18
• King sends hero to otherworld to carry message to king's dead father. H1252.4
• Question (propounded on quest): When can certain structure be finished? Answer: When king's daughter marries. H1292.18
• Quest for king's joy and woe. (King tells of adventures in which his brothers are all killed. They were a joy to him but their death a woe.) H1378.2
• Watch for thieves in the king's garden. H1471.1
• Obedience of king's subjects tested by willingness to allow spear to be carried crosswise into houses. Way must be hewn. H1557.5
• Druid attempts to shake king's faith by magic manifestation. H1573.1.3
• "Consider the end": counsel proved wise by experience. Barber hired to cut king's throat sees on the bottom of the basin the words "Whatever you do, do wisely and think of the consequences." He drops the razor and confesses. J21.1
• Fly jeers at king's elephant for his lack of freedom. J211.2.1
• King refuses to exile gossipers. They would defame him among strangers. At home they serve to test the king's patience and to reform his life. J215.1.2
• Unnecessary choice of gods. King's sons each choose a god: Jupiter for power, Saturn for wisdom, etc. Father says that a god of all combined would be better. J462.1
• Foolishness of king's taking a washerman for chief minister; washerman makes no preparation for war and kingdom is conquered. [Inadvertant duplication of U129.3.] J677
• Imprisoned musician defends himself. Has been imprisoned because the king did not like the way the musician looked at him. After a year the king returns as a conqueror and sees musician. The latter says that he saw the king's conquests in a vision and was blessing him when he looked at him. The musician is honored. J814.1
• Flatterer always agrees with king even in opposite opinions; defense: he is king's servant. J814.2
• Yogi advises yogi blood for making king's leaky tank hold water: king cuts off yogi's head. J818.1
• Rag accidentally in king's wardrobe thinks it is a ribbon. J953.18
• Mule as descendant of king's war-horse. Fails to mention his mother. J954.1
• Detection of theft by finding bag-repairer. Two men are in a lawsuit and before witnesses seal the documents in a bag to await arrival of the king. One of the men cuts the bag open, changes the documents, and has a repairer sew it up again. On the king's arrival the change is discovered. By having a fine carpet repaired the expert repairer is discovered. Confession follows. J1141.5
• Clever pleading: fighting for King of Kings. Knight hailed before king for fighting blasphemer, tells king that he would fight to protect the honor of the king's name so why not for the name of the King of Kings? J1164
• The laughing ass. King has trickster's horse's tail cut off. Trickster retaliates by cutting off part of upper lip of king's ass. At trial the animals are brought forth. Everyone laughs at the ass. Trickster: "If everyone laughs at the ass, how could the ass help laughing at her companion without a tail?" Freed. J1169.5
• 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
• Prisoner has drunk water furnished by the king and thus becomes king's guest. Spared. J1183.1
• Courtier having observed king's amour shields him and gains pardon. Answers in clever proverbs when called on to say what he has seen. J1211.3
• Thief serves king buffaloes he has killed in hunt and lost; thus reproaches king's wastefulness. J1289.15
• Tailor caught resting his head on royal robe while he rests tells king there is no better resting place for king's robe, for "the head is the king of the body." J1289.19
• King and jester flee: the king's swift horse. Jester: "You did have a swift horse. When I had to stop because my horse was tired out, you went two miles further." J1483.1
• Clever wife of king's adopted son keeps king distracted on deathbed so that he cannot disinherit husband. J1521.2.1
• Philosopher spits in king's beard. It is the only place he can find at the royal table not covered with gold and jewels. J1566.1
• Clever ways of attracting the king's attention. J1675.1
• King's attention attracted by fighting when it cannot be otherwise gained. J1675.1.1
• King's capriciousness censured: the ass in the stream. A nobleman seeing an ass letting water in a river remarks that it reminds him of his king. He explains to the king that just as the ass puts water where it is already plentiful, so the king awards wealth where it is not needed. The king says that it is all in the nature of the nobleman's fate. Subsequent events prove this. J1675.3
• Old man silent in king's presence asks king what he himself does when in company with a fool. [Inadvertant duplication of J1369.5.] J1714.5
• Bird protruding from king's stomach cut out with swords: king killed. J1842.3
• Monkey sneezes in king's presence like rabbit. Killed. J2413.6
• Picking the louse and the flea. One man rewarded with forty crowns for picking louse from king's robe. Imitator given forty lashes for picking flea. J2415.2
• Watchdog enticed away. Trickster brings rabbit under his coat. When the king's watchdog gives chase the trickster enters and robs. K318
• Thief lies down in the space between the king's and the queen's bed and steals jewelry from both. K331.7
• King persuaded to change clothes with thief disguised as old woman. Thief rides king's horse away. K346.1.1
• Goldsmith as thief in king's treasury. Makes golden human figure and says it is a corpse. Gets by guards. K419.7
• King's daughter put into brothel to catch thief. K425
• Confederate in disguise as "troll" frightens king's men, while his daughter helps prisoner to escape. (Cf. F455.) K649.7.3
• Disguised shipwrecked men admitted to the king's house kill him at Yule feast in revenge for murder. K913.1
• Barber killed when hero reports king's ancestors need his services in heaven. K964
• Dupe allowed to guard "king's drum": it is a wasp nest. K1023.1
• Dupe allowed to guard "king's girdle": it is a snake, which bites him. K1023.1.1
• Dupe allowed to guard "king's litter": sticks in mud. K1056
• Dupe sleeps on the "king's bed": falls into well beneath and dies. K1078
• Treacherous counselor persuades king's son to woo his father's young bride whom he is sent to get, and as he tells the king that he is her lover both are killed. K1094
• King's daughter deceives king by substituting her maid. K1223.5
• Hostile brother-in-law made king's inferior by being tricked to hold his sword, while the king arranges his breeches belt. (Old custom). K1292
• Message of death fatal to sender. (Gang nach dem Eisenhammer.) A man is sent by the king to burners of a kiln who have been instructed to throw the first arrival into the fire. The intended victim goes elsewhere and the king's son (or the man's accuser), who next arrives, is burned instead. K1612
• Person sends wrong man to sleep with king's daughter. In revenge villain orders whoever first enters temple to be killed. Villain accidentally enters and is slain. K1612.1
• Ogre terrified by an iron man. In order to save the king's daughter from the ogre an iron man is forged. K1756
• Bluff: wealth gained by seeming to be in the king's confidence. Courtier asks the king for a reward that will cost nothing. He gets permission to listen to the king's devotions. He now receives bribes because of his apparent influence. K1782