50 motifs match “lover's”  ·  back to the chapters

• Transformation to husband's (lover's) form to seduce woman. D658.2
• Boiling lock of lover's hair draws him to sweetheart. D1355.3.5
• Lover's magic sleep at rendezvous. A lover (husband) is to meet his mistress but magically oversleeps. D1972
• Dead lover's malevolent return. E210
• Spells to recall dead lover. Boiling dead man's head, bones, or carcass in a pot, or burning a piece of lover's clothing or cat in a hot oven. E218
• Dead lover's friendly return. (Cf. E210.) E310
• Fairy mistress prophesies mortal lover's fate in battle. F302.7
• Woman swoons and is near death at hearing of husband's or lover's death. F1041.1.2.2.1
• Woman keeps to her bed on announcement of lover's death. F1041.9.1.3
• Lover's fidelity tested by going to bed with mistress and only kissing. H1556.4.1
• Lover's fidelity tested by making love to maid. H1556.4.2
• Lover's fidelity tested by substituting maid in mistress's bed at assignation. He must refuse her. H1556.4.3
• Lover's anger softened by sham suicide attempt. Is later scorned. K1232.1
• Lover's place in bed usurped by another. K1317
• Use of drugs to usurp lover's place. K1317.6
• Man intercepts love letter and takes lover's place in elopement. K1317.9
• Death feigned to woo maiden. She shows remorse when she hears of lover's death. K1352
• Lover's gift regained. The husband appears before payment can be made to wife. K1357
• Lover's foster brother (friend) steals bride from wedding with unwelcome suitor. K1371.1.2
• Adulteress falls in mud at lover's door. She deceives her husband by saying that she must enter and clean her dress. K1524
• Husband rescues wife's paramour. Not knowing lover's identity, husband takes him to his wife and entrusts him to her care. He then leaves on a trip. K1544.1
• The lover's gift regained. K1581
• Lover's gift regained: the broken (removed) article. The lover breaks (or removes) an article of household equipment and convinces the husband that for that reason the wife has confiscated that which he gave her as a present. K1581.1
• Lover's gift regained: horse and wagon as gift. The lover regains gift of horse and wagon by pretending to the husband that the wife has confiscated them because he brought wood of uneven quality. K1581.2
• Lover's gift regained: borrowing from the husband and returning to the wife. The lover borrows money from the husband with which to corrupt the wife, later telling the husband that the money was returned to the wife during the husband's absence. K1581.3
• Lover's gift regained: accidental discovery of identity. The lover, ignorant of the identity of the husband, tells him of his experience with the wife. The husband persuades the lover to lead him to the scene, where the wife is compelled to restore all but a small part of the money. K1581.4
• Lover's gift regained: piece of cloth as gift. The lover regains by a ruse and thievery the borrowed piece of cloth which he has presented to his mistress. K1581.5
• Lover's gift regained: jewelry as gift. The lover presents the wife with a valuable piece of jewelry, which he regains by pretending to the husband that he has left it as a pledge. K1581.6
• Lover's gift regained: anser venalis (goose as gift). The lover regains his gift by a ruse (obscene). K1581.7
• Lover's gift regained: refusal to leave bed. Woman fearing exposure returns money. K1581.8
• Lover's gift regained: spending money to purchase lover's worthless goods. K1581.9
• Lover's gift regained: payment with worthless money. Lover bargains with the husband. Pays him with worthless money. K1581.10
• 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 in menial disguise at lover's court. K1816.0.2
• Through power of saint, man is caused to assume lover's form and sleep with princess. Lover plots death of saint, but is accidentally slain in his place. K1915.2
• Bird carries off jeweled veil with which girl had covered sleeping lover's face. Lover pursues bird and becomes separated from the girl. N352.1
• Lover's wound breaks while he is in bed with mistress. He bleeds to death (or is discovered because of the blood). N386
• Lover's spur catches in sheet when he tries to escape. Uncovers mistress. N386.1
• Faithless wife (mistress) seized by husband's (lover's) poet, who leaps to death with her in his arms. Q411.0.1.3
• The Eaten Heart. Adulteress is caused unwittingly to eat her lover's heart. (Sometimes other parts of his body.) (Cf. Q241.) Q478.1
• Adulteress forced to eat out of lover's skull. Q478.1.2.1
• Adulteress forced to have lover's head before her at meals. Q478.1.4
• Woman takes on lover's deformity (while conversing with him). T24.4
• Girl falls dead on lover's body. T81.3
• Girl kills herself after lover's death. T81.6
• Woman dies on hearing of lover's or husband's death. (Cf. T211.9.1.) T81.7
• The Pot of Basil. Mistress keeps murdered lover's skull in flower-pot. T85.3
• Lover's body kept embalmed for years by grieving mistress. (Cf. T211.4.) T85.4
• Mistress springs into dead lover's grave. T86.3
• Maidservant given to lover's companion as bed-partner. (Cf. T281.) T484