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Motifs — first 20 of 40
- Waves as girls, daughters or widows of the sea-god. A423
- Girls dancing in heaven. A661.4
- Pleiades girls who died of grief. A773.3
- Why Zuñi girls rub flour on their faces as they grind. A1687.1
- Living boys or girls transformed into plants. A2617.1
- Tabu: opening gourd in which star-wife is kept. When curious girls do so, she flies up to sky. C31.1.5
- Tabu: sexual relationship with girls of nobility while having sore on body. C110.1
- Seven girls in guise of seven parrots come to boy who has spurned them. D658.3.3
- Tree opens its trunk to give shelter to abandoned girls. (Cf. D950.) D1556.2
- Life token: rings will exchange places on girls' fingers. E761.7.14
- Mountain-men as lovers of herding-girls. F460.4.1.1
- Country of little girls. F709.2
- Girls eat their sister. G73
- Devil (gentleman) invites girls into his sleigh. G303.7.1.2.3
- Swinging ogre. Girls who swing their lovers over pit, cut rope, and later devour them. G327
- Bride chosen from girls assembled at feast. (Cf. H311.) H362
- Bride test: thrifty cutting of cheese. Three girls tested. First eats rind and all, second cuts away good cheese, third cuts away just enough. H381.2
- Test of resourcefulness: to swing seventy girls until they are tired. H506.5
- Suitors receive enigmatic answers. Girls answer in single words, which, when arranged in certain order, show that they accept. H593
- Melons ripe and overripe analogous to girls ready for marriage. H611.1
Tale types
- ATU 2205 'Come Here, Lean!' Three girls find three coins and use them to buy three pigs, named Lean, Fat, and Tail
- ATU 426 The Two Girls, the Bear, and the Dwarf
- ATU 480 The Kind and the Unkind Girls (previously The Spinning-Women by the Spring
- ATU 480D* Tales of Kind and Unkind Girls
- ATU 552 The Girls Who Married Animals
- ATU 750** Girls Plucking Berries