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Motifs
- Deity of the deserts. A419.2
- Angel of the deserts. A419.2.1
- Fairy wife deserts mortal husband for repulsive lover. F302.2.1
- Fairy wooes and deserts man. F302.3.4.3
- Man deserts wife for fairy. F302.5.0.1
- Wood-nymph wooes and then deserts man. F441.2.1.3
- La Belle Dame Sans Merci. Witch entices men with offers of love and then deserts or destroys them. G264
- Thief takes mistress's ornaments across river on pretense of keeping them safe, and then deserts her. K346.6
- Marooned egg-gatherer. The father-in-law has the youth hunt eggs on an island and deserts him, but the youth outwits him. K1616.1
- Disguised man takes bride's place: deserts, leaving a she-goat in his place for the foolish bridegroom. (Cf. K1223.1.) K1836.3
- The faithless resuscitated wife. Husband at great sacrifice has brought his wife back to life. She immediately deserts him and plots with a paramour against his life. (Cf. K2213.2.) K2213.5
- Treacherous lover betrays woman's love and deserts her. K2232.1
- Woman deserts husband for unworthy lover. (Deformed, mutilated, monstrous, or of different race.) T232