43 motifs match “sisters”  ·  back to the chapters

• God carries brothers and sisters on his back in basket. A137.4.1
• The seven grain sisters. A433.2
• Sun and moon as sisters, daughters of sky-god. A736.4
• 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
• Why brothers and sisters do not marry. A1552.1
• Tabu: reproaching supernatural wife about her sisters. C31.11
• Girl lives in fruit and comes out only to be bathed by her twenty sisters. F562.4
• Three witch sisters. Sometimes simply three hags. G201
• 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
• 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: guarding six sisters-in-law so that they do not joke or talk to anyone. H1199.17.2
• The lisping sisters. The girls have been warned against speaking, but forget and are found out. K1984.1
• 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 stepsisters. K2212.1
• Youngest daughter agrees to marry a monster; later the sisters are jealous. L54.1
• Youngest daughter avoids seducer. Elder sisters have been deceived. L63
• Jealous sisters curse the child one of them may have by the god Thor, so that it never will grow nor thrive. M437.2
• Accidental meeting of sisters. N743
• Brothers and sisters. P250
• Sisters. P252
• Two sisters. P252.1
• Three sisters. P252.2
• Seven sisters. P252.3
• Eight sisters. P252.4
• Nine sisters. P252.5
• Ten sisters. P252.6
• Eighteen sisters kill one another. P252.7
• Sisters throw unique jewel into lake; killed and thrown after it. Q582.1
• Sisters rescue sisters. (Cf. G551.2.) R157
• Jealous mother-in-law and sisters cast woman's children forth. S322.6
• Children left at home seek exposed brothers and sisters. S356
• 100 brothers seek 100 sisters as wives. (Seven – seven, fifty – fifty, etc.) T69.1
• Three brothers married to three sisters. T69.1.1
• Sisters in love with same man. T92.8
• Eldest daughter will marry man only if he will marry all her sisters too. T131.3
• Man married to several sisters. T145.1.3
• Chaste sleeping together with six sisters-in-law one by one. T355
• Girl left in tree by sisters: asks monkey, ape, bear, and tiger to put her down or else bite her. All refuse. Panther comes and devours her. Z39.7
• Seven brothers marry seven sisters. Z71.5.8