• Moon wants to marry his sister the sun. She is angered and throws hot ashes on his face. A751.5.2.1
• Mankind emerges from lake. A woman and boy. They marry and populate earth. A1232.2
• Why brothers and sisters do not marry. A1552.1
• Fly indicates successful suitor. Girl to marry man on whom specially marked fly lights. B152.2
• Wedding of fox and hyena. Fox refuses to marry hyena, since, according to belief, hyena yearly changes sex. B281.1
• Crow refuses to marry titmouse, since she is 100 years old. B282.22.1
• Lion is freed from net by mouse. Mouse asks that his son marry lion's daughter. Request granted. The mouse is trampled to death by his bride. B363.1
• Person plans to marry monkey. B601.7.1
• Animal transformed to man wants to marry woman. B650.1
• Mother wishes lazy daughter may marry devil. Devil appears and marries her. C12.4.1
• Wish for animal husband realized. Girl says she will marry a certain animal. Latter appears and carries her off. (Cf. C15.) C26
• Tabu: marrying queen of certain race. C162.1
• Tabu: fairy girl marrying mortal. C162.1.1
• Tabu: marrying unmanly person. C162.2
• Tabu: marrying outside of group (or caste). C162.3
• Tabu: women marrying until hero has chosen their husbands. C566.4
• The one forbidden thing: returning to home country after marrying fairy. C644
• Injunction: to marry first woman met. C664
• [First Edition: D658.4. Cow transformed to woman to marry man and protect cattle.] D658.4[1st ed.]
• Disenchantment of monster when prince promises to marry the monster's mother. The prince imagines falsely that the mother is also a monster. D741

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• ATU 1362B* Marrying a Man of Forty
• ATU 1367* Better to Hang than to Marry an Evil Woman (previously To Live with Evil Woman)
• ATU 1468* Marrying a Stranger
• ATU 1479* The Old Maid on the Roof (previously The Youth Promises to Marry the Old Maid)
• ATU 2019* Louse and Flea Wish to Marry
• ATU 313E* The Sister's Flight (previously Girl Flees from Brother who Wants to Marry her)
• ATU 706C The Father who Wanted to Marry his Daughter (previously Lecherous Father as Queen's Persecutor)
• ATU 938* Master Discovers that the Slave Girl he Wants to Marry is a Near Relative [T410