75 motifs match “married”  ·  back to the chapters

• 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
• Sun and moon married. A736.1.4
• Moon married to mortal woman. A753.1.4
• Moon married to son of sky-god. A753.1.4.1
• Why some married people quarrel and accuse each other of infidelity. A1375.1
• Boy who plays marriage-game finds he has actually been married to a spirit (invisible during ceremony). C167.1
• Married man not to eat in country of his parents. C215
• Dead sweetheart appears to seducer every evening, even after he has married another woman. E211.2
• Dead man asks that certain girl be married to him because in life he seduced her. E353
• Prince married to a she-monkey (really queen of the fairies). F302.11
• Woman dies of broken heart on learning that her former husband is still alive. She had remarried thinking him dead. F1041.1.3.7
• Witches married to fairies. G287
• Girl married to a devil. Despairing of ever finding herself a husband, the old maid exclaims: "I would marry even the devil, were he to marry me." The devil takes her at her word. G303.12.5.1
• Girl married to devil escapes with answers to his riddles. G303.12.5.5
• Tailor married to princess betrays trade by calling for needle and thread. H38.2.1
• Weaver married to princess betrays trade by talking in his sleep. H38.2.4
• Weaver married to princess betrays his identity when he unconsciously waves his hands as though he were weaving and asks for his shuttle. H38.2.4.1
• Prophecy for newborn princesses: the one who takes gold in the mouth will be married to a prince; the one who takes hawkweed, to a peasant. H41.6
• Princess to be married to man who withstands twelve years' fight. H328.6
• Test of wife's endurance. Haughty princess married to beggar and must endure poverty and menial work. H465
• King: Why did you not do it (marry so that sons could help you)? Peasant: I did, but it was not God's will (I married three times but it was not God's will to give me sons). H585.2
• One traveler to another: Is this cup valuable or not? (Is your daughter married or not?) H586.7
• "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
• The funeral for the ineligible husband. A king awards a young woman to a gardener, who is already married. The young woman performs a funeral ceremony for him. The king is pleased with the jest and takes her into the harem. J1191.3
• Foolish married couples. (Cf. J1701, J1702.) J1713
• Distress over imagined troubles of unborn child. (Clever Else.) Girl sent to cellar to get wine to serve the suitor begins weeping over the troubles of the child which she might have if she married the suitor. Her parents join her. Meanwhile the suitor leaves. J2063
• Transferred wish wisely used as well as unwisely. (J2075 contrasted with a married couple in which the wish is wisely used by the wife.) J2075.1
• Parents made to believe that they are dead and are married to each other again. J2311.8
• Husband makes wife and mother-in-law believe he will bear a sheep. His wife was pregnant when he married her. J2321.3
• Numskull believes that he is married to a man. Two men's hands joined in fun with words "I marry you." Fool thinks that he must get a bishop to annul the marriage. J2323
• A snake for the real daughter. Stepdaughter, married to a snake, appears decorated with jewels. Stepmother desires a snake be procured for her daughter. She is swallowed instead. J2415.7
• Marrying a stranger. The girl shortly to be married complains: "It was all very well for you, mother, to marry father, but I am to marry a complete stranger." J2463.2
• The stolen and restolen ham. Two thieves steal a ham from a former companion who has married, have it stolen back, and resteal it. (Cf. K341.7.1, K362.4.) K306.1
• Girl makes toilet and calls help. When she sees robber under her bed she pretends not to see him and combs her hair at the window. She says, "When I am married my husband will come home from the tavern and seize me by the hair and I shall cry: "Help!" Rescue comes. K551.5
• Wolf punished by being married. After debate it is decided that marriage is the greatest punishment. K583
• Woman's father and brothers kill her husband in sleep for having married against their wishes. K959.2.1
• Trickster shifts married couples in bed. Old man married to young woman and young man married to old woman. The shift is satisfactory to the young couple. K1318
• Man disguised as woman courted (married) by another man. K1321.3
• Altered letter of execution gives princess to hero. On his way robbers steal the letter and change it so that instead of being killed he is married to the princess. K1355
• Man is made to believe that his married daughter has borne a child. In reality it is a foundling. When the supposed mother dies her father is about to forfeit dowry, when the child's real parents claim him. K1923.2
• Quarreling prince and princess vow that if they are married he will desert her on the wedding day and she will make him eat boiled rice and thin broth for six months. It so happens. M149.4
• Vow to get stubborn girl half-married only. M149.6
• Cat witness to betrothal punishes violator. Kills the man's son when he has married a different woman. M205.1.2
• Prophecy of death not to come true if baby is married to girl of twelve years. M341.0.3
• Weaver married by Wealth to a princess to show Wisdom that he is the more powerful. N141.4
• Lover who is detained away beyond stipulated time returns to find fiancée married. N391
• Man discovers he is married to wer-tiger. N399.3
• Son returns on day his mother is to be married to another (though her husband still lives). N681.4
• Slaves ordered married discover they are brother and sister. N734.1
• Princess cannot be married to someone of low caste, though he passes suitor test. P41
• Married woman spurns king's offer of marriage. King honors her husband. Q87.1.2
• Princess married to lowly hero must live in slave quarters. Q485.1
• Princess humiliated by father after she has married loathly bridegroom. S322.1.4
• Girl sleeps in garden to meet lover. Discovered next morning and married. T36
• Three brothers married to three sisters. T69.1.1
• Love kept up even after one of the parties is married to another. T88.1
• Princess married to mortally wounded prince and both left in jungle. T89.1.1
• Mature married woman in love with callow youth. T91.4.1
• Hero falls asleep while sweetheart is being married to another. T92.4.1
• Girl (man) married to (enamored of) a monster. T118
• Man who has once been married helps groom to dress for wedding. T134.3
• Man married to several sisters. T145.1.3
• Married life. T200
• Faithfulness of married couple in misfortune. T215
• Old man married to young, unfaithful wife. T237
• Christ, not having married, knew nothing about suffering. So thinks the man after hearing all about Christ's torments. T251.0.2
• Beautiful woman married to hideous man: he is thankful, she patient. She says that they have thus both gained paradise. T268
• Other aspects of married life. T280
• Other aspects of married life – miscellaneous. T299
• Maiden queen prefers to fight instead of marrying, but is at last conquered and married. T311.4
• Peasant girl married to king longs for peasant ways of eating. U135.3.1
• Six short, fat husbands married to six tall, fat wives try absurdly to kiss them at the threshold on their wedding day. X151.1
• City into which only married and mothers may enter. X1563
• The house that Jack built. Final formula: This is the farmer that sowed the corn that fed the cock that crowed in the morn, that waked the priest all shaven and shorn, that married the man all tattered and torn, that kissed the maiden all forlorn, that milked the cow with a crumpled horn, that tossed the dog, that worried the cat, that caught the rat, that ate the malt that lay in the house that Jack built. Z44