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• Origin of York and Lancaster rose. From dust and blood of slain of War of the Roses – a variety of rose unknown before that time. A2656.2
• Horse allowed to go as it pleases, finds unknown person. B151.1.1.0.3
• Mare with foal left behind finds road home. The foal is left so that the force of nature in the mare will discover the unknown road home. B151.1.1.1
• Animal selects unknown person. B152
• Transformation to seek lost (or unknown) person. D647
• Ghost possesses girl and she speaks in dialect unknown to her. E725.2
• Dwarfs emigrate to unknown place. F451.9.2.1
• Unknown prince shows his kingly qualities in dealing with his playmates. H41.5
• Unknown prince reared by fisher spends money on princely tastes. H41.5.1
• Combat of unknown brothers brings about recognition. H151.10
• Hero is served at table by his unknown son: recognition of his wife follows. H151.11
• Recognition by "force of nature". Unknown member of family immediately and magically recognized. H175
• Ghost of unknown child passes over heads of parents and bursts in a spray of blood. H175.5
• Father tests. Test as to who is unknown father of child. H480
• Infant picks out his unknown father. H481
• Infant indicates his unknown father by handing him an apple. H481.1
• Infant picks out his unknown mother. H482
• Test of unknown father: gold on street. Princess has gold put on street leading to her. The man who rides over the gold-covered street without noticing is the father of her child. H485
• Test: guessing unknown propounder's name. H521
• Test: guessing unknown propounder's age. H521.1
• Test: guessing unknown animal (plant). H522
• King (father) assigns tasks to his unknown son. H921
• Man whose laughter brings rain will not laugh: brought to laughter when people who, unknown to each other, have gone to sleep in same dark room frighten each other. H1194.1
• Mother sends son to find unknown father. (Cf. H1385.7.) H1216
• Quest for unknown person. H1381
• Quest for unknown parents. H1381.1
• Quest for unknown father. H1381.2
• Woman seeks unknown father of her child. H1381.2.1
• Quest for unknown, vanished beloved. H1381.2.1.1
• Child seeks unknown parent. H1381.2.2
• Son seeks unknown father. H1381.2.2.1
• Boy twitted with illegitimacy seeks unknown father. H1381.2.2.1.1
• Child seeks unknown mother. H1381.2.2.2
• Boy twitted with illegitimacy seeks unknown mother. H1381.2.2.2.1
• Quest for unknown woman. (Cf. H1385, M55.) H1381.3
• Quest for unknown woman whose picture has aroused man's love. (Cf. H1381.3.1.1.1.) H1381.3.1.2.1
• Quest for unknown son. H1381.6
• Quest for unknown bridegroom who has certain name and is only son among seven children of father. H1381.7
• Quest for unknown objects or places. H1382
• Quest for unknown magic words. Hero seeks them on the heads of swallows, the necks of swans, the backs of geese, and the tongues of reindeer. H1382.1
• Quest for unknown story (epic). H1382.2
• Quest for unknown lines of poem. H1382.2.1
• Quest for unknown wonder. H1382.3
• Quest for unknown animal. H1383
• Quest for unknown puppy-hound. H1383.1
• Fools and the unknown animal. J1736
• Unknown animal: a pig captured in a pit. J1736.3
• Bringing the devil an unknown animal. The man sends his naked wife on all fours in tar and feathers. The devil has never seen such an animal. K216.2
• Tiger frightened at hearing unknown wind. K1727
• Pious pilgrim dies unknown in his father's house. (Miraculous manifestations.) K1815.1.1
• Object unknown in a country sold for a fortune. N411
• Prophecy of future greatness fulfilled when hero returns home unknown. Parents serve him. N682
• Unknown son returns to father's court. N731.1
• At execution block condemned man discovered to be king's unknown son. N731.4
• Concealed wife. Unknown wife supernaturally conceals herself until the favorable moment to come forward. N741.1
• Accidental meeting of seeker of exiled prince with prince at meal. Messenger in pilgrim garb invites unknown prince to eat with him. Recognition. N745
• Unknown prince chosen chief of children in play. P35
• Precious knife and belt as gift on unknown helper's spearshaft outside his tent. Q114.1
• Punishment: death from unknown disease before end of three days for having obtained food by force from monastery. Q551.6.0.2
• Unknown helper(s) emerge(s) in the last moment and turn(s) out later to be well known. (Cf. R222.) R169.11
• Unknown knight. (Three days' tournament.) For three days in succession an unknown knight in different armor wins a tournament and escapes without recognition. Finally identified by tokens. R222
• Heroine taunted with her unknown past. (Cf. F302.) S412
• Love through sight of something belonging to unknown princess. T11.4
• Love through sight of hair of unknown princess. T11.4.1
• Love through sight of hair of unknown hero. T11.4.1.1
• Love through sight of slipper of unknown princess. T11.4.2
• Woman enamored of an unknown knight in a tournament loses interest when she finds that it is her husband. (Cf. R222.) T236
• Unknown (clandestine) paramour. T475
• Unknown paramour discovered by string clue. T475.1
• Child cries because his father is unknown. T646.1
• Sacrifice to unknown god. V11.9.1
• Hero buried as unknown merchant in foreign country. V69.2