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• Queen of the gods. A161.3
• Sea-queen and hand maidens entice lovers. A421.1.1
• Queen of watersnakes. B244.1.1
• Parrot gives advice to queen playing chess, and she always wins. B565
• Tabu: marrying queen of certain race. C162.1
• Transformation: king and queen to peasant and wife. D24.2
• Queen transforms herself to defeat god of death. D651.1.3
• Disenchantment from bird when queen milks own milk into bird's beak. (Cf. D764.1.) D759.2
• Disenchantment by drinking milk of queen who has borne two boys. (Cf. D759.2.) D764.1
• Speaking lamp prevents king from killing queen. (Cf. D1162.) D1381.29
• Magic knowledge from queen of other world. (Cf. D1723.) D1810.1
• Magician appears as swineherd, dwarf, and giant in order to seduce queen and scorns her later in the same shapes. D2031.4.2
• Saint causes fiery sword to come between hostile king and queen. D2196
• Hero fights in otherworld and overcomes king (queen), or fairy. F176
• Otherworld queen. F185
• Fairy queen. F252.2
• Burial service for fairy queen is held at night in Christian church. F268.1
• Prince married to a she-monkey (really queen of the fairies). F302.11
• Fairy queen's beauty temporarily destroyed by intercourse with mortal. F304.2
• Three fairies sent to queen about to give birth to child. F312.3
• Queen of demons. F402.2.2
• Water-spirits have kingdom under water: queen, king, attendants, vassals. F420.3.3
• Giants have king, queen. F531.6.8.5.1
• Queen takes husband's place in battle. F565.1.3
• After persecuted queen has been driven away from palace, trees do not bear fruits, flowers cease to bloom, and birds do not sing. F975.2
• Witch disguised becomes queen, devours king's horses nightly. G264.3.1
• Devil (in queen's form) insatiable, although she copulates with all men and horses. G303.3.1.12.5
• Clandestine visit of lover to queen betrayed by token. H81.3
• Abandoned queen invites all to forest, gives appropriate food to her persecutors, and is recognized. H155
• Maiden queen promises herself to the man who heals her husband and kills his bewitcher. H346.1
• Queen propounds riddles. H540.2
• Queen of Sheba propounds riddles to Solomon. H540.2.1
• Symbolic interpretation of playing cards. Soldier reproved for playing cards during church says that playing cards are his prayerbook and calendar. Ace: one God, one Faith, one Baptism; 2: old and new Testaments; 3: Trinity; 4: evangelists; 5: wise virgins; 6: days of creation; 7: sabbath; 8. Noah's family; 9: ungrateful lepers; 10: commandments; knave (jack): Judas; queen (of Sheba); king: God; 12 face cards: 12 months; etc. H603
• Riddle of the murdered lover. With what thinks, I drink; what sees, I carry; with what eats I walk. (Queen has cup made from skull of her murdered lover; ring with one of his eyes; she carries two of his teeth in her boots.) H805
• Tasks assigned at instigation of queen (disguised ogress). H919.6
• Maiden queen sets hero three dangerous tasks in order to disenchant her sisters. (Cf. F565.3.) H933.2
• Queen of Sea sets hero tasks. H933.5
• Task: stealing belt from queen. H1151.5
• Queen writes message on stone which hero finds: he goes in search of her. H1229.2
• Directions on quest given by queen. H1232.2
• Quest for beautiful saree for the queen. H1355.2
• Quest for queen of fairies. H1381.3.8
• He who wins maiden queen is king. H1574.3.2
• Wise words of dying woman (queen). (Cf. J154.) J155.6
• King to avoid possible assassination has queen's quarters searched before he enters. J634.2
• King (queen) teaches children to work at all tasks to prepare them for life's possible hazards. J702.2
• Lady answers queen so straightforwardly she gets light punishment. J751.1.1
• Man pretends idiocy so as to avoid compromising himself when summoned to testify by two rival queens before the king. J822.1
• Man with unfaithful wife comforted when he sees the queen's unfaithfulness. J882.1
• Queen flogs suspects telling them to produce stolen gem: thief promises to do so. J1141.1.10
• Detection by disrobing in a dance. A man masking as a maiden has committed adultery with the queen. A clever girl by challenging him to disrobe in a dance exposes the imposture. J1149.3
• The gift of the fool. Of three brothers the shoemaker makes shoes for the queen and princess; the tailor, clothes; the fool – children. J1272
• Fools cast lots for royal purple of queen who is still alive. J2060.4
• Queen grieves herself to death over fate of her children after her death. J2063.1
• Let them eat cake. The queen has been told that the peasants have no bread. J2227
• Thief lies down in the space between the king's and the queen's bed and steals jewelry from both. K331.7
• Trickster exacts money as price of silence after lying with princess (queen). K443.6.2
• Queen hiding king disguised as child tells ogress she has borne child with moustache: ogress frightened. K547.10
• Waxen statue left instead of abducted queen. K661.4
• Aristotle and Phyllis: philosopher as riding horse for woman. The philosopher warns the king against uxoriousness. In revenge the queen beguiles the philosopher into letting her ride him on all-fours. The king comes and sees. K1215
• The bag of lies: threat to tell of queen's adultery. The boy, who is to tell the bag of lies, is stopped and his wishes granted. K1271.1.1
• Incognito queen (princess). K1812.8
• Queen flees husband's persecution disguised as knight. K1812.8.1
• Disguised queen visits her husband and begets child with him as assigned. (Cf. H1187.) K1812.8.3
• Prince disguised as merchant seduces a queen. (Cf. K1349.3.1.) K1814.1
• Queen disguised as peddler. K1817.4.1.1
• Queen disguised as peddler sells children poisoned cheese. K1817.4.1.1.1
• Girl disguised as doctor exposes queen's paramour who is masquerading as woman. K1825.1.1.1
• Fairy visits queen in her husband's shape and begets son with her. K1844.4
• Deceptive report of birth of heir. Queen tells king anxious for an heir that she is to give birth to a son, but that ill will befall the son if king looks upon him. K1847.1.1
• Queen changes her own ugly twins for slave's pretty son. Later recognizes the better character of the twins, and changes back again. K1921.3
• Queen passes off girl-child as boy by having pandits say raja must not see his son for twelve years. K1923.6
• Leper (beggar) laid in queen's bed. She is thus incriminated. K2112.2
• Princess disguised as man is accused of illicit relations with queen. K2113
• Jealous queens tell child-bearing queen to put her head in the hole at the bottom of grain-bin, so that she fails to see what she delivers. K2115.0.1
• Queen falsely accused of having poisoned husband. Ignorant doctors cannot diagnose king's illness. Queen burned at stake. K2116.1.2
• Incognito queen falsely accused of having killed child left in her care. K2116.1.4
• Calumniated wife: substituted letter (falsified message). The letter announcing the birth of her children changed on the way to the king, so that the queen is falsely accused. (Cf. K2115, K2116.) K2117
• King's faithful servant falsely accused of familiarity with queen. K2121.2
• False queen puts horseflesh in bed of one with child so as to identify her as horse-eating thief. K2127.2
• Treacherous queen has her brother killed. K2212.0.3
• Love-mad queen pushes her husband into well, as fakir lover directs. K2213.2.1
• Queen in love with own brother kills her husband. K2213.3.4
• Faithless queen aids lover to dispossess king. K2213.8
• Treacherous queen tricks king into bestowing kingdom upon her son. K2213.11
• Young queen murders her old husband in order to get a new one. K2213.12
• Queen kills her husband as revenge of his killing of her father and brother. K2213.13
• Queen deceives her husband as revenge for his killing of her lover and brother (Helgi.) K2213.14
• Treacherous queen lures her husband into chest and betrays him to hostile king. He is hung up between two fires, but his second wife cuts the strings so that he falls down and kills his enemy and takes his kingdom back. K2213.15
• Treacherous princess (queen). K2246.0.1
• Mildness triumphs over violence: queen advises husband to use kindness to enemies. This wins them over where war failed. L350.1
• Queen forced to become a courtesan. L410.7
• Vow to marry queen of fairies and not to eat or drink inside kingdom until this is done. M146.1
• Vow if queen bears another girl she and child will both be killed. M184
• Prophecy that if raja should take one more queen he will have a son. M311.0.3.2
• Prophecy: girl will be queen. M314.0.1
• Prophecy of king taking a cruel stepmother to her sons after her death enacted before eyes of dying queen by sparrow family living in tree by palace window. M369.2.1.1
• Prophecy: king will have head pounded by strange queen. Due to peculiar set of circumstances this happens. M369.9
• Queen dies from fright from evil prophecy. M392
• Sick queen lying under red satin carried off by bird who thinks it is red meat. N335.2.1