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• God carries brothers and sisters on his back in basket. A137.4.1
• Brother-sister marriage of the gods. A164.1
• The seven grain sisters. A433.2
• Demigod son of king's unmarried sister (daughter) by god. A511.1.3.1
• Demigod son of king's unmarried sister by her brother. A511.1.3.2
• Sun sister and moon brother. Brother visits sister at night. She marks him to identify him. He flees and she follows with flaming brand. She is sun and he the moon. A736.1.1
• Sun-brother and moon-sister. A736.1.2
• Moon, sun are sister and brother, wife and husband. A736.1.4.2
• Sun and moon as sisters, daughters of sky-god. A736.4
• Moon wants to marry his sister the sun. She is angered and throws hot ashes on his face. A751.5.2.1
• Moon is wife to all twelve brothers of the sun and they have her a month at a time because she ate up her sisters. A753.1.4.2
• Earth by murder of first brother and sister. A831.4
• Rivers and streams offspring of marriage of Ocean and his sister. A938
• Paradise lost because of brother-sister incest. A1331.2
• Origin of sickness and misfortune: monstrous births from brother-sister incestuous union. A1337.0.7
• Why brothers and sisters do not marry. A1552.1
• Brother-sister marriage of children of first parents. A1552.3
• Origin of insects: monstrous births from brother-sister incest. A2006
• Tabu: reproaching supernatural wife about her sisters. C31.11
• Sister-in-law tabu: older brother must avoid younger brother's wife. C172
• Tabu: uttering name of sister-in-law. C435.2.1
• Magic appearance of human limbs. A boy has no hands and legs; his abandoned sister successfully commands them to appear or disappear. D61
• Faithful brother transforms self to deer to seek sister. D647.1
• Magic object received from sister. D815.4
• Resuscitation by sister(s). E125.2
• Dead brother reproves sister's pride. E226.1
• Dead sister's friendly return. E325
• Dwarfs adopt girl as sister. F451.5.1.2
• Girl lives in fruit and comes out only to be bathed by her twenty sisters. F562.4
• Man hides sister in wound in his thigh to protect her. F1034.3.1
• Blood of brother and sister (and smoke from their funeral pyres) refuses to mingle. F1075
• Girls eat their sister. G73
• Brothers eat their sister. G73.1
• Cannibal ogress gives finger of one girl to her frightened sister. G86.1
• Three witch sisters. Sometimes simply three hags. G201
• Rescue of sister from ogre by brother. G551.1
• Rescue of sister from ogre by another sister. G551.2
• Youth shoots raven and takes feather to raven's sister as token. H78.1
• Brother unwittingly qualifies as bridegroom of sister in test. H310.2
• Wit combat among three sisters for additional dowry. Replies to husbands when their premarital pregnancy is noticed. H507.4
• Test: to guess which of veiled sisters has golden hair. H511.2
• King: What is your sister doing? Youth: She is mourning last year's laughter. (Nurses child, the fruit of last year's love affair.) H583.5
• Riddle: white brother, black sister: every morning brother kills sister; every evening sister kills brother; they never die. (Day and night.) H722.1
• Tasks assigned at suggestion of jealous brothers (sisters). H912
• Maiden queen sets hero three dangerous tasks in order to disenchant her sisters. (Cf. F565.3.) H933.2
• Sisters-in-law impose tasks. H934.2
• Tasks set by cruel sisters-in-law to get tigress. H939.3
• Task: liberating wife's sister, elephant's captive, who lives in a box in his ear. H1151.18
• Task: guarding six sisters-in-law so that they do not joke or talk to anyone. H1199.17.2
• Quest for lost sister. H1385.6
• Rich man refuses to associate with poor sister. J411.11
• Prostitutes wander. A woman having given her cook leave of absence for the next day asks her what day it is. "Saturday." "No, it is the day on which the prostitutes wander." The cook: "Yes, from one prostitute to another. Today I am with you, tomorrow with your sister." J1351.1
• Fatal bread. Numskull refuses communion because his sister died shortly after eating the bread. J1824
• Boy strikes at a fly on his sister's breast: it turns into nipple and girl thinks it due to brother's caress. J1833.1.1
• Fool believes that he has begot child with his sister by an earbox. J1919.7
• Sister of goddess tries to imitate her feat of being cooked without harm and dies in the attempt. J2411.6.1
• Literal numskull destroys inherited property since his sister has instructions not to object to his actions. J2461.1.8
• Two rival parties of fifteen each on ship. When food is exhausted, it is agreed that half the company be thrown overboard, "every ninth man as they stood to be selected." Clever sister of leader of one party arranges men so that enemies are chosen and so drowned. K527.4
• Jealous wife tells sister to look below: pushes her over cliff. K832.1
• Woman drugs sister and substitutes for her with lover. K1317.6.1
• Underground passage to paramour's house. (Inclusa.) Woman goes from one to the other. Her husband is made to believe that the woman next door is her sister. K1523
• Lover in disguise as duke's son takes service under king with his followers in order to abduct his sister. K1831.2.2
• Husband and wife disguised as brother and sister. K1839.14
• The nun who saw the world (Sister Beatrice). The Virgin takes the place of the nun in the nunnery while the latter is living a life of shame. K1841.1
• The lisping sisters. The girls have been warned against speaking, but forget and are found out. K1984.1
• Brother (sister) secures blessing due to another. K1988
• Impostor: one sister borrows another's clothes and gets religious blessing in her place. K1988.1
• Brother accused of paternity of mystically impregnated sister. K2121.1
• Stepsisters scatter sugar in girl's litter so that flies congregate; would-be bridegroom disgusted and tells bearers to abandon her in jungle. K2129.3
• Treacherous sister. Usually elder sister. K2212
• Treacherous sister attempts to poison brother. K2212.0.1
• Treacherous sister as mistress of robber (giant) plots against brother. K2212.0.2
• Treacherous stepsisters. K2212.1
• Treacherous sister-in-law. K2212.2
• Only the youngest brother helps his sister perform dangerous task. L32
• Youngest daughter agrees to marry a monster; later the sisters are jealous. L54.1
• Youngest daughter avoids seducer. Elder sisters have been deceived. L63
• Ugly preferred to pretty sister. L145
• Ugly sister helps pretty one. L145.1
• Cruel brothers brought to beg charity from abused sister. L432.1
• Brother and sister arrange marriage of their unborn children to each other. M146.4
• Vow to find vanished sister. M155.2
• Jealous sisters curse the child one of them may have by the god Thor, so that it never will grow nor thrive. M437.2
• Sister as wager. N2.6.1
• Messengers announce successive misfortunes to warrior as he sets out for war. Tells of death of father, mother, brother, and sister, but he refuses to turn back. N252.1
• Angry brother kills husband, thinking latter had killed wife (sister) and baby. N342.5
• Wrong sign put out leads to boys' leaving home. They are to be informed by a sign if a sister is born. N344.1
• Unwitting brother-sister incest. N365.3
• Brother and sister unwittingly in love with each other. N365.3.1
• Boy says, "Whoever eats this mushroom is my wife." His own sister eats it and he runs away. N365.3.2
• Man in love with his own sister accidentally learns her identity. N681.3.2
• Accidental meeting of brother and sister. N734
• Slaves ordered married discover they are brother and sister. N734.1
• Saint prays with woman; learns she is his sister. N734.2
• Accidental meeting of sisters. N743
• Issue of marriage of brother and sister of highest chiefly rank is a god. P3
• Brothers and sisters. P250
• Sisters. P252
• Two sisters. P252.1
• Sister kills sister. P252.1.1