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• Parents of the gods. A111
• God born from peculiar part of parent's body. A112.7
• Mythical lizards parents of culture hero. A511.1.8.3
• Parentage of culture hero. (Cf. A511.1.8.) A512
• World parents: sky-father and earth-mother as parents of the universe. The sky-father descends upon the earth-mother and begets the world. A625
• Pleiades six repudiated wives. They have been cast out for apparent infidelity. A773.2
• Origin of first parents. A1271
• Sun, moon, and stars bring forth first parents. Sun and moon beget son; morning and evening star beget daughter; these, the first parents, are at first without understanding, but it is awakened later by demigods. A1271.1
• Sun and moon beget stones and birds: these transformed to first parents. A1271.2
• First parents children of god. A1271.3
• First parents originate from gold which is from body of first man. Born fifteen years old. A1271.4
• Twin first parents. A1273
• Incestuous first parents. A1273.1
• Offspring of first parents. A1277
• First parents devour offspring. A1277.1
• Of first parents husband so hideous he is kept hidden. A1279.1
• After Fall first parents fed and clothed from one palm-tree. A1420.5
• Brother-sister marriage of children of first parents. A1552.3
• Parents learn how to wean their children. A1566
• Origin of code of conduct for parents toward children of polygamous marriage. A1576
• Parent of all fishes. B60.1
• Helpful animal foster brother. Hero reared by animal's parents. B311.1
• Helpful animal reincarnation of parent. The dead mother appears to the heroine in the form of an animal. B313.1
• Animal nurses fight with real parent for children. B535.2
• Wolf boy (girl) running around with wolf and cubs recovered by parents after six years: recognized by scar. B635.2
• Married man not to eat in country of his parents. C215
• Monster born because of hasty (inconsiderate) wish of parents. C758.1
• Transformation through thoughtless wish of parent. D521.1
• Power of self-transformation received from fairy parent. D630.3
• Magic object received from foster-parents. D815.7
• Theft from church prevented by apparent heat. D1389.2.1
• Forgotten fiancée reawakens husband's memory by detaining lovers through magic. Heroine takes up residence near home of her forgetful husband. She is apparently going to permit a lover to sleep with her when she detains him by having him try to place some magic birds on their roost. They continue to fall down throughout the night. (Or the lover is left magically sticking to a calf's tail or other object.) The thwarted lover tells of his experience, and in this way the attention of the husband is gained. D2006.1.1
• Apparently dead persons revived when certain thing happens. Proper prince appears, or the like. E68
• Deer foster parent of hero comes alive from its burial hill when youth returns to spot and carries him off to jungle again. E138.1
• Dead child's friendly return to parents. Frequently to stop weeping. (Cf. P230.) E324
• Fairies seek human godparent. F372.2
• Dwarfs have mortal god-parent. (Cf. F420.5.3.3.) F451.5.6
• House burns for no apparent reason. F473.2.4
• Person with transparent body. F529.5
• Transparent stone. F809.7
• Maiden who has been falsely accused apparently dies of sorrow. She revives on being prepared for burial. F1041.1.3.1
• Two children of different sex, not related, have such close resemblance that even parents cannot tell them apart. F1072
• People who eat their parents when they die, saying: they carried us in their bodies when we were born; now we shall do the same for them. G23
• Unnatural children eat parent. G71
• Girl attempts to eat parents but they escape. G71.1
• Unnatural parents eat children. G72
• Monsters of the sea: two whales of human parentage. G308.8
• Abandoned son shows claws and tail of tiger to which his parents have exposed him. H105.5.4
• Recognition when parents come to son (priest, pope) to be confessed. H151.3
• Abandoned child joins parents in game: recognition follows. H151.9
• Recognition of abandoned child when parent comes to him for relief from famine. H154
• Ghost of unknown child passes over heads of parents and bursts in a spray of blood. H175.5
• Bride's parents (supernatural) help suitor win in suitor contests. H335.0.1.2
• Enigmatic statements. Apparently senseless remarks (or acts) interpreted figuratively prove wise. H580
• What is hardest? Parent's heart (said by child being sacrificed). H637.1
• Tasks assigned by jealous parent. H913
• Quest for unknown parents. H1381.1
• Child seeks unknown parent. H1381.2.2
• Suitor tested by apparent threats to his person. H1406
• "Do not send your wife for a long visit to her parents": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.47.1
• Encounter with clever children (woman) dissuades man from visit. On way to a city meets children and they are so clever that he turns back home, fearing how clever their parents must be. J31
• Parents's misdeeds innocently betrayed by children. J125
• Fate of parents revealed in dream. Mother shown in Hell; father in Heaven. J157.2
• Choice: apparent injustice over greater wrong. J225
• Choice: real and apparent values. J230
• Apparent beauty may be of the least importance. Ruler admires jewels's beauty but neglects to inquire about their marvelous virtues. J264
• Kind foster-parents chosen rather than cruel parents. (Cf. J325.) J391
• Truth the best policy. Servant about to be caught for theft rehearses the lie he is to tell his master. He finds lies so transparent that he decides to tell the truth. J751.1
• Repartee concerning the parentage of children. J1270
• Repartee regarding the parentage of children – miscellaneous. J1279
• Asking the large fish. Parents serve boy a small fish and keep back a large one for themselves. Knowing this, the boy puts the fish to his ear. He says that he has asked the fish a question; the fish cannot answer but tells him to ask the large fish under the bed. J1341.2
• No clothes needed for Day of Judgment. Friends tell a man that the next day is the Day of Judgment and urge him to kill a lamb and give a feast. He apparently consents. He then burns up their clothes. They will not need clothes on the Day of Judgment. J1511.7
• Settling the dispute. Two men cannot agree to bride's dowry. Third party tells each parent that the other has agreed. Marriage. "Now that you are relatives you can settle it between yourselves." J1678
• 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
• Noodles push parents over a rock as a favor to them. J2119.3
• Burial in old grave to deceive angel. Fool thinks that the angel who comes to question him will pass him by since he has apparently been dead a long time. J2212.2
• Parents made to believe that they are dead and are married to each other again. J2311.8
• Foolish woman gives swindler money for her parents in heaven. J2326.1
• Jewess makes parents believe that she is to give birth to the Messiah. She bears a girl. J2336
• Children ask parents too difficult questions. Get no answers. J2370.1
• Foolish bride gives away dowry. While her parents are away from home, a matchmaker and a suitor come to the foolish girl. By following her mother's advice literally, she gives away her dower to the tricksters. J2463.1
• Letter believed against clear evidence. Fool believes letter apparently reporting his uncle's death, though he has just seen uncle. J2528
• Thief distracts attention by apparently hanging (stabbing) himself. K341.3
• Apparently dead woman revives when thief tries to steal from her grave. K426
• 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
• 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
• Parents exchange children. K1921
• 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
• Brothers pose as princes, deeming their parentage not worthy of their merit. K1952.3
• Apparently pious man (sadhu) a thief. K2058.1
• Woman makes vain overtures to stepson and falsely accuses him of murder. She tries to poison him but her own son accidentally takes the beverage and apparently dies. Plot is revealed when doctor states that he had substituted sleeping potion for the poison. K2111.1
• Modest choice: parting gift. Small gift with blessing preferred to large gift with parent's curse. L222
• Prophecy: parents will humble themselves before their son. (Vaticinium.) M312.2
• Prophecy: death at hands of parents. M343.5
• Exposure (murder) of child to avoid fulfillment of prophecy of future greatness. Parent fears that the child will overcome him. M371.1
• All male children killed for fear that they will overcome parent. M375.1
• Curse by parent. M411.1
• Safety in shadow of wall. After many misfortunes the man is apparently safe. The wall falls on him. N253
• Son returning home after long absence unwittingly killed by parents. (Cf. N338.3.) N321
• Daughter unwittingly turns her own parents out of doors. N367