46 motifs match “suitors”  ·  back to the chapters

• Pleiades a princess and six suitors among whom she could not choose. A773.1
• Damsel whose voice turns her suitors to stone. D581.1
• Demon suitors of girl. F402.1.15
• Inspection test for suitors. Suitors for princess's hand must present themselves for public inspection. (Cf. H362, T55.7.) H311
• Physical and mental requirements for suitors. H312
• Suitors chosen with feet as only part seen. H312.3
• Suitor test: to whom the princess turns. Rival suitors sleep with princess. The one she turns to is to have her. They vie in enticements. H315
• Suitor contest: bride offered to the one distinguishing himself most in battle. Girl loves both suitors equally. H331.2.1.1
• Suitors contest with bride's father in shooting. H331.4.1
• Tasks assigned suitors. Bride as prize for accomplishment. (For nature of tasks see H1000ff.) H335
• Girl assigns tasks to her suitors. H335.0.2
• Suitor task: to kill all earlier suitors. H335.4.3
• Suitors assigned quests. H336
• Suitor test: to consort with princess without sleeping. Suitors are given sleeping potion. H347
• Suitors receive enigmatic answers. Girls answer in single words, which, when arranged in certain order, show that they accept. H593
• Question (on quest): How can the girl thus far avoided by suitors marry? (Various answers.) H1292.5
• Solomon's judgment: the divided bride. Three suitors dispute over a woman. When it is proposed to divide her, true lover is discovered. J1171.2
• Numskull praises his daughter as being pregnant. He tries in vain to sell his cow and succeeds only when he says that she is with calf. When suitors come wooing his daughter, he tries the same plan disastrously. J2427
• Fool learns to repeat commonplace expressions: by chance thus scares off wife's suitors. J2461.2.2
• The entrapped suitors. (Lai l'épervier.) The chaste wife has them one at a time undress and hide. The husband and guests come and chase them off. K1218.1
• The entrapped suitors: the chaste wife tricks them into casks. The husband takes the casks to the marketplace where he opens them. K1218.1.1
• The entrapped suitors: the chaste wife has them caught. Forces them to work for her. K1218.1.2
• Suitors one by one enticed into graveyard and left together. They later get revenge. K1218.3
• Suitors as corpse, angel, and devil. First induced to lie in coffin, second to sit up with the "corpse", and the third to carry a firebrand. "Corpse" thinks others are angel and devil. All come to blows. K1218.4
• Suitors put off till web is woven. Unwoven each night. (Penelope.) K1227.2
• Girl plays at dice with her suitors: locks them up when they are defeated. K1237
• Husband in disguise begs food of his wife's suitors. K1568
• Girls keep up appearances to deceive suitors as to their desirability. K1984
• Girl reported possessed of demon: suitors frightened away. K2125.1
• Only love to offer. Bride asks suitors what they have to offer her. Poor youth who has nothing but love to offer gets her. L393
• Gods discuss means of settling dispute among girl's suitors. Venus has girl make her own choice. N817.1
• Jealous father vows to kill daughter's suitors. S11.4.1
• Princess builds tower of skulls of unsuccessful suitors. S110.3
• Princess makes necklace of heads of unsuccessful suitors. S110.3.1
• Girl carefully guarded from suitors. T50.1
• Girl carefully guarded from suitors by hag. T50.1.3
• Suitors ill-treated. T75.0.1
• Rejected suitors' revenge. T75.2.1
• Princess calls her suitors ugly names. T76
• Rival suitors kill each other over woman's love. Woman dies of broken heart and all three are buried in the same grave. T86.1
• Girl promised to three different suitors; because she is unable to settle the dispute she eats poison and dies. T92.0.1
• Rival suitors discomfit each other. T92.11.1
• Widowed she-fox rejects suitors who do not resemble her deceased husband. T211.6
• Girl remains a virgin after both her suitors are killed in battle. T311.3
• Virginity saved in spite of torture. Undesired suitors give up task. T320.1.1
• Small grain-measure runs away when her husband beats her: succession of suitors. Z39.8