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Motifs — first 20 of 28
- Giant bride's equipment. F531.1.12
- Bridegroom alone able to pluck flower from bride's grave. H31.12.1
- Recognition of false bride by inability to finish true bride's weaving. H35.3.1
- Suitors contest with bride's father in shooting. H331.4.1
- Suitor contest: race with bride's father. H331.5.2
- Groom and his army have to fight bride's army. H332.4
- Bride's parents (supernatural) help suitor win in suitor contests. H335.0.1.2
- Suitor task: avenging bride's father's death before marriage. H335.1
- Suitor task: avenging bride's former fiance before marriage. H335.1.1
- Wealthy (handsome) suitor disguised as beggar to test bride's kindness. H384.1.1
- Prince disguised as a madman to test bride's character. H384.1.2
- Bride's constancy tested by seven year's mourning over supposed dead lover. H387.1
- Disguise to test bride's chastity. H452
- Ducklings take to water from instinct. Bridegroom thus brought to understand bride's expertness in lovemaking. J64
- Settling the dispute. Two men cannot agree to bride's dowry. Third party tells each parent that the other has agreed. Marriage. "Now that you are relatives you can settle it between yourselves." J1678
- Disguised man takes bride's place: deserts, leaving a she-goat in his place for the foolish bridegroom. (Cf. K1223.1.) K1836.3
- False bride takes true bride's place on the way to the wedding. K1911.1.1
- False bride takes true bride's place when child is born. K1911.1.2
- False bride takes true bride's place at fountain. The true bride, left by her husband for a short time at a fountain, is supplanted by a moor or gypsy, who transforms her. K1911.1.3
- False bride finishes true bride's task and supplants her. The true bride must perform a certain task to win her husband and, being exhausted, commits the task to a slave. K1911.1.4