“father's”

Motifs — first 20 of 87

Daughters' sickness because of father's breaking tabu. C940.2
Magic object found on father's grave. D842.2
Dead father's friendly return. E327
Twelve year old hero captures town of father's enemy. F611.3.2.6
Man senseless from grief at hearing of father's death; one doesn't feel that he cuts himself with his knife, the other presses dice so that he bleeds. F1041.21.5
Man forced to eat dead father's heart goes mad. G91.1
Man forced to eat dead father's heart struck dumb. G91.1.1
The devil's son is with his mother at night in his father's place. G303.11.1.1
Recognition by brother king of lost brother brought about by model of their father's palace which lost brother builds of clay. H16.1
Recognition of brothers brought about by bouquet of flowers tied as father's gardener used to do. H16.3
Suitor task: avenging bride's father's death before marriage. H335.1
Test of paternity: adhesion of blood. Blood of real son will adhere to dead father's bones. H486.1
Test of paternity: shooting at father's corpse. Youngest of supposed sons refuses to shoot and is judged the only genuine son of dead emperor. H486.2
Test of mother's and father's love for children. H491
Father's counsel: walk not in sunshine from your house to your shop. (Attend to business, rising early and retiring late.) H588.1
Father's counsel: let pilav be your daily food. (Eat frugally.) H588.2
Father's counsel: marry a new wife every week. (Do not see your wife too much.) H588.3
Father's counsel: on wishing to drink wine go to the vat and drink it. (Stench in vat so great that desire for wine is turned to loathing.) H588.4
Father's counsel: if you want to gamble, then gamble with experienced gamblers. (If you see how wretched professional gamblers are you will not want to gamble.) H588.5
Father's counsel: dress up the trunks of trees, cover the road. (Plant the road with fruit trees and betel between the trees.) H588.6

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