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Motifs
- Sun father-in-law. A226
- Magic object received from father-in-law. D815.5
- Suitor tests. A suitor is put to severe tests by his prospective bride or father-in-law. H310
- Suitor test: duel with father-in-law. H332.3
- Prospective father-in-law requires that suitor for his daughter's hand visit foreign country (otherworld?) to learn feats of arms. H336.1
- Bride test: kindness – father-in-law disguised as beggar. H384.1
- Father-in-law gives daughter-in-law enigmatic permission to go home. H588.0.1
- Disguised real wife orders motley wear for her husband when he goes to fetch new bride-to-be: prospective father-in-law takes him for a fool and real wife reveals herself to husband. J1112.1.1
- God as a father-in-law. Nuns tell a man that they are daughters of God. "Come and marry me; I should like such a rich father-in-law." J1261.1.1
- Child born one month after marriage. Father-in-law to son-in-law: "Do like my grandson and you will always be ahead of others." J1276.1
- "Where did dirt go when canal was dug?" Disgusted father-in-law: "I have eaten half and your father half, to have such a fool son-in-law." J1309.3
- Son-in-law steals father-in-law's pants by making latter believe he has dirtied them. K344.3
- 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
- Treacherous father-in-law. K2218.2
- Father-in-law. P261
- Cruel father-in-law. S52
- Burned and underbaked bread. Wishing to rid herself of her father-in-law, the daughter-in-law starts to feed him burned bread; but the old man begins to thrive on it. When she tries underbaked bread, he dies very soon. S54.1
- Father-in-law sued for breach of contract because he does not die in two years as he has predicted. W151.5
- Deaf peasant: travelers ask the way. Travelers ask their direction. Peasant thinks they want to buy oxen. Peasant's wife arrives; thinks they say her food is too salty. – Daughter-in-law and father-in-law misunderstand each other. X111.2