145 motifs match “mistress” — showing the first 100; narrow the words for the rest  ·  back to the chapters

• Animal reveals mistress's adultery: punished by master. (Cf. A2411.2.1.5, A2422.1.1.) A2237.1
• Faithful dog helps open mistress' grave – dies on it. [Inadvertant duplication of B301.7.1.] B301.1.2
• Faithful lapdog dies when mistress dies. B301.7
• Faithful dog helps open mistress' grave and dies on it. [Inadvertant duplication of B301.1.2.] B301.7.1
• Animal wins husband for mistress. B582.1.2
• Hero carried by bird to mistress' chamber. B582.2.1
• Lion kills wolf who has killed mistress' sheep. B591.1
• Magic porridge-pot keeps cooking. Against command, mother of owner bids pot to cook. It fills house with porridge and will not stop until ordered by mistress. C916.3
• Transformation to resemble man's mistress so as to be able to kill him. D40.2.1
• Lover as bird visits mistress. D641.1
• Transformation: wife to mistress. Transformed wife substitutes for husband's mistress. D659.7
• Lover's magic sleep at rendezvous. A lover (husband) is to meet his mistress but magically oversleeps. D1972
• Mistress summoned by wish. D2074.2.3.1
• Fairy personage (god?) houses mistress in crystal bower. (Cf. F165.3.5.1.) D2185.1
• Fairy mistress. Mortal man marries or lives with fairy woman. F302
• Bonga mistress. F302.0.1
• Mortals supplied with fairy mistresses during visit to fairyland. F302.1.1
• Fairy visits mortal and becomes his mistress. F302.3.0.1
• Man obtains power over fairy mistress. F302.4
• Fairy mistress and mortal wife. F302.5
• Fairy mistress surrenders man to his mortal wife (Wildfrau). F302.5.1
• Fairy mistress transforms man's human wife. (Cf. F302.3.2.2.) F302.5.2
• Fairy mistress demands that man send his mortal wife away. F302.5.4
• Fairy mistress tries to destroy mortal's wife (mother) by sending her a magic belt. F302.5.5
• Fairy mistress leaves man when he breaks tabu. F302.6
• Celtic fairy mistress dominant. F302.6.1
• Recovery of fairy mistress. F302.6.2
• Fairy mistress prophesies mortal lover's fate in battle. F302.7
• Fairy mistress demands mortal lover deny Christian teachings. F302.8
• Fairy mistress rescues hero from battle. F302.9
• Fairy mistress strikes her disobedient human lover on the face and predicts death. F361.17.9
• Magician carries mistress with him in his body. She in turn has paramour in hers. F1034.2
• Rakshasa's mistress with her head severed lying in a pool of blood. G369.1.7
• Help from ogre's wife (mistress). G530.1
• Tell-tale hand-mark. Clandestine lover is identified by paint marks left on his skin by his mistress. H58
• Disguised mistress identified by chalk marks left on back by lover. H58.1
• Geese tell of beauty of their mistress and bring about recognition. H151.12
• Otherworld mistress instructs hero how to perform tasks (imposed by her mother). H335.0.1.1
• Nectar in poison: mistress who saves her lover. H592.3
• Task performed with help of mistress. H974.1
• Quest for vanished wife (mistress). H1385.3
• Lover's fidelity tested by going to bed with mistress and only kissing. H1556.4.1
• Lover's fidelity tested by substituting maid in mistress's bed at assignation. He must refuse her. H1556.4.3
• Better send an ugly woman to the devil than a pretty one. Man chooses ugly mistress. J229.4
• Man prefers servant girl who is present to her absent mistress. J326
• Wife chosen instead of fairy mistress. They let man choose between them. J414.1
• Foolish youth in love with ugly old mistress. J445.1
• Choice of friend over mistress. Given the choice of his friend or his mistress, man chooses his friend. J496
• Cocks who crow about mistress's adultery killed. Discreet cock saves his life. J551.1
• Bird warns mistress against committing adultery: gets neck wrung. J551.1.1
• Paramour who insists on quarreling with mistress about escape caught by her husband. He finds the escape different from that which had been described to him. J581.2
• Priest must give up his charge or his mistress. Gives up his parish and immediately loses his fickle mistress. J705.1
• Wife reforms wayward husband. Makes gift to husband's mistress so that she may receive him fittingly. Husband is shamed into reforming. J1112.1
• Wife dismisses maid who is husband's mistress and tells him she has fled. Husband understands and reforms. J1112.2
• Detection by strewing ashes (sand). Trespasser (lover, mistress, ghost, fairy, etc.) leaves footprints in the ashes. J1146
• Witness cannot speak language of accusation: discredited. Two parrots taught accusation of mistress in a particular dialect. They know nothing more of the language. (Cf. G1154.1.) J1152
• Humiliated lover in repartee with disdainful mistress. (Cf. K1225.1, K1326.1.) J1251.1
• Youth says he is associating with a pious person. He has nun as mistress. (Cf. J1161.5.) J1264.5
• Four men's mistress. A husband disguises as a priest to hear his wife's confession. She says that she has been mistress of a servant, a knight, a fool, and a priest; i.e., her husband when he was her servant, and later her knight. He had then been a fool for demanding her confession, and was a priest because he had heard it. J1545.2
• Servant repays stingy master (mistress). J1561.4
• Foolish lover ignorant of mistress's flaws. J1737
• Foolish lover does not know that his mistress lacks an eye. Only after his return from an absence does he notice it. J1737.1
• The Lord has departed. Maidservant on way to church on Palm Sunday meets priests leading ass on which Jesus rode. The maid runs home and tells her mistress that the Lord has mounted and has just gone away. J1823.1.3
• Incognito mistress breaks off relations when she overhears the lover discussing the adventure. J2364
• "Cover with straw." Fool covers his mistress with straw and suffocates her. Should have thatched roof. J2489.8
• Heart may not be able to stand winning mistress. Man told it is well he did not obtain girl he loved because his heart might not have been able to stand it. J2572
• Anger bargain: may God give you a penny. A servant and his mistress agree that when they are angry with each other they shall say, "May God give you a penny!" When the master says this, the servant says, "May he give you two!" They keep increasing the amount till those who hear wonder at the performance. The mistress tells them, "You don't know the coin." K172.1
• Thief takes mistress's ornaments across river on pretense of keeping them safe, and then deserts her. K346.6
• Illness feigned to escape rendezvous with undesired mistress. K523.0.1.1
• Paramour unwittingly drinks sleeping potion. Is thought dead and placed in a chest. Chest is stolen. When he escapes he is accused of being a robber. He is saved by his mistress's maid who explains all, transferring the role played by her mistress to herself. K675.1
• Slave washing mistress's back in stream pushes her into crocodile hole. K831.1
• Vergil in the basket. A lover who is to be pulled up to his mistress's window is left hanging in the basket in the public gaze. K1211
• Lover left standing in snow while his mistress is with another. He later tricks her into standing a whole day in July in a tower naked exposed to the sun and flies. K1212
• Priest caught in lasso by rival lover. Mistress tells knight of priest's demands. Knight has her give assignation, and arranges around her a string lasso which he pulls, and catches priest. K1218.1.6
• Mistress deceives lover with a substitute. K1223
• Mistress sends man's own wife as substitute without his knowledge. K1223.2
• Wife (mistress) substitutes for mistress (wife). The woman has been asked for a rendezvous. She tells the suitor's wife and they exchange places. K1223.3
• Moorish (black) girl substituted for mistress (in the dark). K1317.8
• Man is ushered into maiden's room by maidservant. He then takes the latter's place in the mistress's bed. K1347
• Man disguised as groom enters mistress's room. K1349.1.4
• Access gained by the aid of rival's mule. Man tries in vain to learn the identity of his friend's mistress. Mounts his friend's mule, which takes him to the secret rendezvous. K1349.3
• Guest at inn is told that there is but one available bed: that of the mistress. K1396
• Physician treating man's eye covers his one good eye. Entertains his patient's mistress. K1516.1.1
• Death feigned so man can live with mistress. K1538.2
• Lover carried away on mistress's shoulders so that his footprints will not be visible in the snow. K1549.3
• Illness feigned to go to mistress. Husband leaves bed to go to serving maid. K1569.3
• 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
• Wife takes servant's place and discovers husband's adultery. The husband says that he is going into a state of meditation with a cloth over his face. He substitutes a servant and goes to his mistress. The wife finds the deceit and takes the servant's place. On his return the husband tells the supposed servant of his adultery. K1585
• Paramour sends prostitutes in disguise to take mistress to "convent". Husband is deceived by the ruse. K1592
• Maids must rise even earlier. They have killed the cock for waking them too early, but their mistress punishes them. K1636
• Lover approaches mistress disguised as fool. K1818.3.2
• Monkey dresses in dead mistress's gown; frightens household. K1839.3
• Wife sends mistress to her husband disguised as herself. K1843.1.1
• Wife takes mistress's place in husband's bed. Brings about reconciliation. K1843.2
• Wife takes mistress's place in husband's bed: husband sends message of death. K1843.2.1
• Wife takes mistress's place in bed but is deceived in turn. Husband had tired of the mistress and had previously substituted servant. K1843.2.2
• Wife takes mistress's place in husband's bed. The husband, unaware of the substitution, asks his friends to share his good fortune. K1843.2.3
• Husband has servant substitute in bed. Instructed not to deceive him while he is calling on mistress. Instructions are not followed. K1844.1.1
• Maid behind statue of Virgin advises the mistress to give the servants better food. K1971.3.1
• Man's mistress accuses his wife of having leprosy. K2110.1.1