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• Sea-queen and hand maidens entice lovers. A421.1.1
• Valkyries (shield-maidens). Demigoddesses who attend battle. A485.2
• Maiden at the bridge to hell. A672.2
• Star-husband. Star takes mortal maiden as wife. A762.1
• Four maidens as earth-supports. One is at each of the cardinal points. (Cf. A842.) A841.2
• Origin of menstruation – Virgin Mary's garment. She hides her garment and a maiden finds it. A1355.2
• Gull a transformed ravished maiden. While he is sleeping, the maiden the hero has stolen is ravished by another man. The hero thereupon turns her into a gull. (Cf. A1710.) A1945.2
• Poplars from weeping maidens transformed by god. A2681.3
• Dragon keeps maiden tied with golden chain. B11.10.1
• Mermaid captures a maiden. B81.4
• Merman marries maiden. B82.1
• Snake heals mutilated maiden with magic herbs. B511.1.2
• Marriage to swan-maiden. B652.1
• Marriage to dove-maiden. B652.3
• Animal tamed by maiden's beauty. B771.1
• Tabu: killing stork. Bird was once maiden. (Cf. A1715, A1966.) C841.1
• Swan Maiden. A swan transforms herself at will into a maiden. She resumes her swan form by putting on her swan coat. (It is difficult to tell in most Swan Maiden tales whether the primary form is swan or maiden: the incident may belong at D161.) D361.1
• Swan Maiden finds her hidden wings and resumes her form. D361.1.1
• Transformation to be able to woo maiden. D641.1.2
• Disenchantment by maidens walking with lighted candles in procession. D759.6
• Disenchantment by maiden sitting at head of enchanted king's bed on morning of St. John's day. D759.7
• Maiden disenchanted, deserted, and refound. D795
• Magic object received from maiden-spirit. D812.15
• Magic object received from maiden in otherworld island. D813.3
• Magic object received from maiden. D825
• Blood of children (innocent maidens) as cure for leprosy. D1502.4.2.1
• Chaste maiden at prayer vanishes from would-be ravisher's embrace. D1714.1.1
• Magic power from celestial maiden. D1726.1
• Magic from maiden walking naked in public. D1796
• Holy maidens carry glowing embers in their chasubles without being burned. D1841.3.2.4
• Guardian magically made to sleep while lover visits maiden. D1965.1
• Prince regains his eyesight after theft of eyes from water maidens. E781.1.1
• Man seeks his mother (star-maiden) in upper world. F15.1
• Mortal taken to heaven by heavenly maidens. F63.1
• Journey to Land of Women. Island of women, land of maidens, country of the Amazons, etc. F112
• Elf-knight entices maiden away and kills her. F301.5
• Fairies slay wooer (or his kin) of fairy maiden. F361.6
• Water-maidens are of unusual beauty. F420.1.2.1
• Water-maidens mute. F420.1.2.2
• Water-maidens have long veil. F420.1.6.5
• Water-maidens dance at village fair. F420.3.2.1.1
• Water-maidens spin. F420.3.2.6
• Water-maiden enamors man and draws him under water. (Cf. F302.3.4, G264.) F420.5.2.1.1
• Water-maidens avenge selves for scorned love. F420.5.2.6.5
• Water-maiden goes to home of mortal and marries. F420.6.1.4
• Water-maidens make conditions for lovers. F420.6.1.5
• Water-maiden marries giant. (Cf. F531.5.7.) F420.6.2.2
• Water-maiden is wooed by dwarf. (Cf. F451.5.18.) F420.6.2.3
• Nereid. A sea-maiden. F423.1
• Tree maidens bathe at midnight in lake. F441.2.1.4
• Man marries tree maiden. F441.2.3.1
• Dwarf suitor desists when unwilling maiden guesses his name. (Cf. C432.1.) F451.5.15.3
• Giantess daughter of giant and abducted maiden (therefore helps hero). F531.5.7.1.2
• Giant maidens grind gold, peace, soldiers, salt, etc., on large stone mill. F531.5.10.2
• Berserk killed in combat about maiden. F610.3.4.2.1
• Cauldron warmed by breath of nine maidens. (Cf. D1171.2.) F686.1
• Well rises so maiden can draw without exerting herself. F933.1.3.1
• Darkness comes in daytime in order to save life of maiden about to be executed. F965.1
• Maiden who has been falsely accused apparently dies of sorrow. She revives on being prepared for burial. F1041.1.3.1
• Cannibal disenchanted by overcoming it. Becomes maiden. G33.1
• Witchcraft causes maiden to hate lover. G263.6
• Ogress bathes in pool, is transformed into beautiful maiden, and becomes king's favorite wife. G264.0.1
• Suitor test: bringing maiden's lost shoe. H322.4
• Maiden queen promises herself to the man who heals her husband and kills his bewitcher. H346.1
• Devil held off from person by answering his riddles. St. Andrew the Bishop, and the Devil. The Devil, in form of beautiful maiden visits a holy bishop. St. Andrew appears as a pilgrim, answers the questions through which the devil seeks to keep him at a distance and discomfits the devil. (Cf. B302.22.3.) H543.1
• Clever youth (maiden) answers king's inquiry in riddles. (Cf. H561.4.) H583
• King: Where shall I tie my horse? Maiden: Between summer and winter. (Between wagon and sleigh.) H583.7
• 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
• Maiden (to king): Shall I feed you with loss or gain. (A slaughtered hen or milk.) H583.9
• Traveler says he is going to seek a hind that he saw in the woods ten years before. (A maiden.) H586.2.1
• Maiden queen sets hero three dangerous tasks in order to disenchant her sisters. (Cf. F565.3.) H933.2
• Directions on quest given by maiden or woman in castle. H1232.3
• Quest for dangerous maiden as bride. H1381.3.1.2.3
• He who wins maiden queen is king. H1574.3.2
• "But by a fine fellow!" Dying toad thus comforts his paramour, the frog, whom he is leaving neither married nor widow nor maiden and pregnant. J865.1
• Detection by disrobing in a dance. A man masking as a maiden has committed adultery with the queen. A clever girl by challenging him to disrobe in a dance exposes the imposture. J1149.3
• Cat transformed to maiden runs after mouse. J1908.2
• Trickster dupes rival by exchanging beds: receives his food. Overhears maiden tell rival she will bring food at night, waits until rival is asleep and carries him to another bed, takes his place, and is fed by maiden. K499.8
• Three cries allowed maiden about to be murdered. Rescue arrives. K551.3.3
• Hair of sleeping maiden tied to tree so that she is not able to rise. K635.1
• Maiden sent to rendezvous with lover, who is captured. K787
• Hero feigns death and is copulated with by divine maidens. K1325.0.1
• Seduction by having maiden placed in floating chest. K1333
• Seduction (or wooing) by stealing clothes of bathing girl (swan maiden). K1335
• Tunnel entrance to guarded maiden's chamber. K1344
• Hero flies to maiden's room. Enters her tower by means of artificial wings (or on flying horse). K1346
• Hero flies on magic carpet to maiden's room. K1346.1
• Man is ushered into maiden's room by maidservant. He then takes the latter's place in the mistress's bed. K1347
• Lover gets into maiden's room by means of a ladder. K1348
• Lover visits guarded maiden while harper puts mother to sleep. K1349.4
• Death feigned to woo maiden. She shows remorse when she hears of lover's death. K1352
• Substitute bridegroom to save husband from poison maiden. K1844.2
• False message of love carried to hero and maiden by troublemaker. K2132
• Swan maidens as guardians of treasure. N572.2
• King (prince) accidentally finds maiden and marries her. N711
• King (prince) finds maiden in woods (tree) and marries her. N711.1
• Hero finds maiden in (magic) castle. N711.2
• Hero finds maiden in (magic) garden. N711.3
• Prince sees maiden at church and is enamored. N711.4
• Hero finds maiden at fountain (well, river). N715.1