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- Pleiades a princess and six suitors among whom she could not choose. A773.1
- Deity creates princess from prince's body and gives her to him. A1275.1.1
- Origin of a king's family from a fairy prince. A1653.2
- Transformed princess as dragon. B11.1.3.0.1
- Dragon fight in order to free princess. B11.11.4
- Merman demands princess. B82.1.1
- Cobra writes letters on prince's tongue: "Having heard all kinds of creatures talk, you will understand them." B165.1.3
- Abused and pampered horses. Hero is ordered by ogre to feed and care for certain horse and to neglect other horse. Hero disobeys and feeds neglected horse. Latter is enchanted prince and helps hero. (Cf. B181.) B316
- Grateful fish grants mad hero his wish: to impregnate a princess. Later the fish saves the hero and his family from death at sea. B375.1.1
- Cobra grateful to prince for milk. B391.1.1
- Remedy learned from overhearing animal meeting. The hero learns how to cure his own blindness and the sickness of the king (princess). B513
- Prince awakened by fly on his nose in time to save himself from enemy. B521.3.3.1
- Serpent shows condemned man how to save prince's life. Bites the prince and then shows the man the proper remedy (cf. B512). By thus ingratiating himself the man is freed from false accusation. B522.1
- Abandoned prince grows up in eagle's nest. B535.0.5
- Goose brings master sleeping princess. B582.1.1.1
- Animals help hero win princess. B582.2
- Prince invites angel to wedding. Taken to other world. C13.1
- Tabu: drinking palm-drink: only prince allowed to break it. C272.3
- Tabu: looking at princess on public appearance. C312.2.1
- Tabu: princess never to see male person. All men must hide when she goes forth. C313.0.1
- Tabu: looking at sun before prince becomes fourteen years old. C315.2.2.1
- Tabu: opening too much of magic box at a time. A priest gives a prince a sealed packet which he is to open in time of distress. He must open only one portion at a time. C321.1
- Tabu: revealing dragon-fighter's identity. Dragon-fighter forbids princess whom he has rescued to tell who he is. C422.1
- Tabus of princesses. C567
- Tabu: princess stepping in water. C567.2
- Prince not to be given eighth key until after he has ruled for five years. C611.1.1
- Tabu: listening to princess's counsel. C815.1
- Princess's secret sickness from breaking tabu. (Cf. C55.) C940.1
- Transformation: man of low caste takes on prince's appearance, and transforms prince to take on his. D22.2
- Transformation: princess to ogress. D47.3
- Transformation: prince to old man. D93
- Wax prince animated by serpent becomes human being. D435.1.4
- Paste (smeared on princess's body) turns to gold. D475.1.11
- Transformation to eagle in order to guard princess. D659.4.4
- Disenchantment of monster when prince promises to marry the monster's mother. The prince imagines falsely that the mother is also a monster. D741
- Failure to disenchant by not watching sleeping princess long enough. D759.9
- Three soldiers in the enchanted manor. Curiosity overcoming them they forfeit the power of disenchanting the princesses. Seven seven-year-old boys break the spell and save the princess. D759.10
- Prince procures magic object from bathing fairy when he steals her clothes. D838.10
- Barley plant droops if prince is in trouble. (Cf. D965.15.) D1310.4.3
- Magic spindle brings back prince for heroine. (Cf. D1186.) D1425.1
- Magic fan summons prince for heroine. (Cf. D1077.) D1425.3
- Magic objects help hero win princess. D1426.0.1
- Letter from captive prince asking for help flies through the air to addressee. D1601.32.1
- Sickness of princess dependent on witch's fire. When fire is high, princess is very sick. Princess recovers when fire is put out. (Cf. D2065.4.) D2064.2
- Insanity of princess dependent on height of fire. (Cf. D2064.2.) D2065.4
- Resuscitation by removal of poisoned apple. By shaking loose the apple from the throat of the poisoned girl the prince brings her to life. E21.1
- Apparently dead persons revived when certain thing happens. Proper prince appears, or the like. E68
- Resuscitation of decapitated princess by hero by imitating ogre's actions of night before: passing sword three times up and down her throat. E149.2
- Prince plucks from grave of vampire a flower which later becomes a girl. E251.2.2
- Reincarnation: prince becomes common man. E605.5
- Reincarnation: common man becomes prince. E605.6
- Prince regains his eyesight after theft of eyes from water maidens. E781.1.1
- Rescued princess leaves her necklace behind in flight; hero returns for it and is left in underworld. F102.3
- Fairy princess with golden hair. F232.4.2
- Giants guard fairy princess from mortal man. F300.1
- Fairies fall in love with prince and charm him into a deathlike sleep. F302.3.4.5
- Prince married to a she-monkey (really queen of the fairies). F302.11
- Parting fairies leave gifts for newborn princess. F340.1
- Fairies bind man fast to ground after he has attempted to capture fairy prince and princess. F361.2.3
- Fairy prince becomes mortal when surprised by daylight. F383.4.1
- Demon seduces princess as she bathes at seashore. F402.1.15.1
- Enchanted princess lives with dwarfs. F451.5.4.3
- Spirit enters princess' body and she falls ill. F493.0.1.2
- Silent princess. F569.3.1
- Men killed by look of beautiful princess. F574.1.3
- Princess' weight that of five flowers. F584.1
- Prince who never laughs. F591.1
- Sad-faced princess cannot laugh. F591.2
- Mighty blower slows down princess with his breath. F622.1
- Prince thinks he has slept on a beam; a hair is found on lower bedding. F647.9.1
- Girl (princess) so delicate she can live only on the perfume of flowers. F647.12
- Castle inhabited by enchanted princess. F771.4.7
- Princess stands in middle of dried-up tank so serpent will release the water, which he had swallowed up completely. F914.1
- Princess cured by seeing her lost lover dance. F950.8
- Blinded prince forces goddess to give him back his sight. F952.0.2
- Dumb princess is brought to speech by tale ending with a question to be solved. F954.2.1
- Flea (magic) enters princess' throat and helps hero make her speak. F954.4.1
- When girl (princess) is born, earth is filled with light. F960.1.6
- Ogress has twenty captive princesses in cave. G334.1
- Ogre decapitates captive princess before he leaves palace; resuscitates her on return. G335
- Ogre guesses correctly and gets princess. G463
- Giant killed by his own bucket of death water; captive princess tells him to wash. G527
- Recognition by overheard conversation with bridge. Bridge which will trip up bridal party if king is not marrying an equal. Disguised princess praises bridge for its recognition of her equality with the king. H13.2.1
- Tailor married to princess betrays trade by calling for needle and thread. H38.2.1
- Peasant boy masking as prince betrays self by his answers. H38.2.2
- 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
- Princess on the pea. Princess recognized by her inability to sleep on bed which has a pea under its dozen mattresses. H41.1
- Unknown prince shows his kingly qualities in dealing with his playmates. H41.5
- Unknown prince reared by fisher spends money on princely tastes. H41.5.1
- 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
- Marvelous horse identified by prince though in form of miserable worn-out one. H62.3
- Roses from lips as sign of royalty. Princess laughs roses. H71.4
- Prince born with bow of gold and string of silver. H71.7.2
- Tree bows before prince. H71.10.1
- Water stands still before prince. H71.10.2
- Frogs croak at prince's command. H71.10.3
- Arrows turn aside for prince (king). H71.10.7
- Hero takes token from sleeping princess. H81.1.1
- Clandestine visit of princess to hero betrayed by token. H81.2