32 motifs match “sweetheart”  ·  back to the chapters

• Pursued sweetheart becomes tree. (Cf. D215.) D642.3.1
• Boiling lock of lover's hair draws him to sweetheart. D1355.3.5
• Invulnerability lost if man forgets sweetheart. D1847.1
• Dead sweetheart haunts faithless lover. E211
• Dead sweetheart in the form of a white rabbit follows seducer. E211.1
• Dead sweetheart appears to seducer every evening, even after he has married another woman. E211.2
• Dead lover haunts faithless sweetheart. E214
• Dead lover returns to dance with fickle sweetheart at her wedding. E214.1
• The Dead Rider (Lenore). Dead lover returns and takes sweetheart with him on horseback. She is sometimes saved at the grave by the crowing of the cock, though the experience is usually fatal. E215
• Hanged man warns youth against visiting sweetheart. Takes youth's place and receives shot meant for him. E366.2
• Wraith of sweetheart stays in room where lover has died. It disappears only after her death at far distant point twenty years after death of lover. E723.5
• Lover dies beside dying sweetheart. F1041.1.2.1
• Suitor test: choosing sweetheart's sedan chair from thirty others like it. H324.1
• Tasks imposed at suggestion of spouse (sweetheart). H916
• Old sweetheart chosen in preference to new. J491
• Man caught running by guards has to tell his destination. One of the guards substitutes for him with his sweetheart. K1317.4
• Lover disguised as other knight in order to reach sweetheart. K1810.3
• Lover masks as doctor to reach sweetheart. K1825.1.1
• Lover disguised as monk or friar meets sweetheart. K1826.1.1
• Lover masks as anchorite to reach sweetheart. K1826.3
• Man leaves his sweetheart in charge of friend. He tries to force his attentions upon her and then claims it was a test of fidelity. K2297.1
• Man, thinking it an enemy, flees as sweetheart comes after him in pursuit. N318.1
• Means of attracting sweetheart. T56
• Dying lover sends his sweetheart his ring. (Cf. T81.) T61.4.5.1
• Man dies at bedside of dying sweetheart. T81.1
• Hero falls asleep while sweetheart is being married to another. T92.4.1
• Lover becomes friar and sweetheart nun when unable to marry. T93.2.1
• Lover opposed to sweetheart's relatives. T95
• Girl forced to marry before sweetheart's return is faithful to her husband. When she refuses to give her former fiancé a kiss, he falls dead. She goes to his funeral and falls dead over his body. T211.7
• Man is killed defending sweetheart's honor. She kills herself. T326.2
• Monk cures himself of desire for dead sweetheart. He digs up her remains. T334
• The old and the new keys. Hero marries his first sweetheart according to the proverb that the old key is better than the new. (Cf. L214.) Z62.1