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• Parents of the gods. A111
• Mythical lizards parents of culture hero. A511.1.8.3
• 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
• 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
• Helpful animal foster brother. Hero reared by animal's parents. B311.1
• 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
• Magic object received from foster-parents. D815.7
• Dead child's friendly return to parents. Frequently to stop weeping. (Cf. P230.) E324
• 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
• Girl attempts to eat parents but they escape. G71.1
• Unnatural parents eat children. G72
• 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
• 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
• Quest for unknown parents. H1381.1
• "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
• Kind foster-parents chosen rather than cruel parents. (Cf. J325.) J391
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Prophecy: parents will humble themselves before their son. (Vaticinium.) M312.2
• Prophecy: death at hands of parents. M343.5
• Son returning home after long absence unwittingly killed by parents. (Cf. N338.3.) N321
• Daughter unwittingly turns her own parents out of doors. N367
• Prophecy of future greatness fulfilled when hero returns home unknown. Parents serve him. N682
• Parents accidentally meet daughter who has survived their attempts to drown her. N732.3
• Man hunting honey encounters lost maiden, returns her to her parents. N785.1
• Parents and children. P230
• Daughters flogged by parents. P237
• Parents descend to hell instead of sons. P241
• Pious children save their parents from hell. P241.1
• Foster parents fined for blemish on child. P270.1
• Peasant and his wife as foster parents of exposed king's son. P270.2
• Parents kill son for slaying their foster son. P270.3
• Godparents. P296
• Kindness to orphans repaid by dead parents. Q47
• Murder of parents punished by member of family. Q211.12
• Punishment of children for parents' offenses. Q402
• Cobras placed in boxes and given to cruel parents, so that they are bitten. (Cf. Q285.) Q415.3.1
• Child taken from parents because they have ceased to think of God. (Cf. Q223.1.) Q553.4.1
• Parents rescues child. (Cf. S351.) R153
• Parents rescue son. R153.1
• Parents rescue son from lower world on rope. R153.1.1
• Children rescue parents. R154
• Children leave home because their parents refuse them food. R228
• Eloping girl recaptured by parents. (Cf. R225.) R355
• Cruel parents. S10
• Child hides food from starving parents. S20.2
• Adopted son plots death of parents. Usurps the throne. S22.1.1
• Cruel grandparents. S40
• Girl promised unwittingly by her parents to ogre. S240.1
• Child as foundation sacrifice smiles and wins freedom. The king asks him why he smiles. "One first expects mercy from the parents; if they have none, then from the king. Now only God will have mercy." S261.1
• Girl offers to sacrifice herself to dragon in place of her parents. S262.4
• Parents successively bury alive their sons who mention something about smith's, potter's, washerman's, and tom-tom beater's trade, but keep fifth child who says something about being future king. S311.1
• Destitute parents abandon children. S321
• Parents trick children into going on hunt, and then abandon them in forest. (Cf. S143.) S345
• Bird carries food from deserted child to starving parents. S361
• Starving parents come to abandoned child for food. S362
• Abandoned children return and kill parents. S366
• Token of betrothal sent to parents of a proposed bridegroom; acceptance means agreement to proposed match. T61.4.4
• Parents affiance children without their knowledge. T69.2
• Parents wooing one of seven daughters for their son. T69.2.1
• Parents decide princess can marry no one who weighs more than she. T69.2.2
• Girl and boy promised to each other by parents both die when they see each other after girl's marriage to another. T86.4
• Marriage against will of parents. T131.1.3
• Parents become servants to secure funds for wedding. T132.2
• Parents urge girl to trade her favors for truce with hostile warrior. T455.4
• Hateful or lovely child to be born first? Childless parents' prayer answered: they are to have two children, one hateful, one lovely. Choice as to which is to come first. T548.1.1
• Child born with claws as result of curse by dying peddler murdered by its parents. T551.9
• Thumbling born as result of hasty wish of parents. They wish for a child, no matter how small he may be. T553
• Human son of animal parents. T566
• Orphan inquires about parents. (Cf. L111.4.1.) T621