53 motifs match “twin”  ·  back to the chapters

• Twin gods. A116
• Twin gods – one mortal, other immortal. A116.1
• Twin goddesses (or trinity of goddesses). A116.2
• Twin daughters of a god. A116.2.1
• Twin culture heroes quarrel before birth. (Cf. A515.1.1.) A511.1.2.1
• Twin culture heroes. (Cf. A511.1.2.1.) A515.1.1
• Twin culture heroes sired by two fathers. A515.1.1.1
• Twin culture heroes – one foolish, one clever. (Cf. A525.) A515.1.1.2
• Twin culture heroes conceived of as sun and moon. A515.1.1.3
• Divine twins make selves a bow and arrow. A527.1.1
• Sun and moon as twin brothers. A736.3.1
• Waters created by divine twins. A910.5
• First couple organically united. Like Siamese twins. (Cf. A1275.2.) A1225.1
• Twin first parents. A1273
• Newly-born divine twins cared for by mother-of-tigers. B241.2.8.1
• Tongue of woman who breaks tabu protrudes and entwines itself around a post in the home. C948.3
• Magic pills insure birth of twin sons. (Cf. D1243.) D1347.3.1
• Medicine causes woman to bear twins. (Cf. D1241.) D1501.8
• Cure by surviving twin. D2161.5.6
• Twining branches grow from graves of lovers. (Cf. E419.6.) E631.0.1
• Two persons with bodies joined. Siamese twins. F523
• Extraordinary companions are brothers (twins, triplets). F601.5
• Rapid boat-builder can build boat in twinkling of an eye. F671.1
• Albino twins with cannibal appetite. G11.11.1
• Recognition of twins by golden chain under their skin. H61.1
• Test: which of twins is elder. Younger unthinkingly hands chopsticks to elder and thus betrays his junior rank. H255
• Chastity ordeal: passing under magic rod. Unchaste woman bears twins. (Cf. D1254.2.) H412.1
• Husband's twin brother mistaken by woman for her husband. K1311.1
• Twisting twine: trickster cuts it. K1433
• 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
• Sham physician predicts the sex of the unborn child. "From one side it looks like a boy, from the other a girl." The woman bears twins and the husband pays the doctor. K1955.3
• Prophecy: birth of twins. M369.7.1
• Father throws boy of boy-girl twin birth into river to avoid evil effects of twin birth. M371.0.2
• Curse: "What I carry may you carry; what you carry may I carry." Cat thus causes ungrateful pregnant woman to bear cats and herself to bear twin girls. M437.1
• Separation of twins through being carried off by beast. N312
• Jealous and overhasty man kills his rescuing twin brother. N342.3
• Mother hides twin (triplet) sons to keep them from death. (Cf. S314.) R153.4.2
• Twins (triplets) exposed. (Cf. T587.) S314
• Twins quarrel before birth in mother's womb. T575.1.3
• Woman bears twins at end of footrace (with king's horses). T581.8
• Twins born in tent; mother abducted. T581.10
• Twins freed from dead mother's body as body rots. T584.2.1.1
• Birth of twins. (Cf. T685.) T587
• Birth of twins an indication of unfaithfulness in wife. (Cf. T586.3.) T587.1
• Twins born one with ear of other in mouth. T587.2
• Immediately after birth of twins one puts the other in his mouth: this twin's body becomes made of iron. T587.2.1
• Last born twin conceived first. T587.3
• Twins. (Cf. T587.) T685
• Twin adventurers. T685.1
• Hostile twins. T685.2
• Twins who look exactly alike. T685.3
• Twins: as twins are reared one born earlier becomes continually weaker, the other stronger. T685.4
• Lodge-Boy and Thrown-Away as joint adventurers. Of brothers (sometimes twins taken from body of slain mother) one is abandoned and becomes wild. Later he joins his brother. Z210.1