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- Pleiades a princess and six suitors among whom she could not choose. A773.1
- Deity creates princess from prince's body and gives her to him. A1275.1.1
- Transformed princess as dragon. B11.1.3.0.1
- Dragon fight in order to free princess. B11.11.4
- Merman demands princess. B82.1.1
- Grateful fish grants mad hero his wish: to impregnate a princess. Later the fish saves the hero and his family from death at sea. B375.1.1
- Remedy learned from overhearing animal meeting. The hero learns how to cure his own blindness and the sickness of the king (princess). B513
- Goose brings master sleeping princess. B582.1.1.1
- Animals help hero win princess. B582.2
- Tabu: looking at princess on public appearance. C312.2.1
- Tabu: princess never to see male person. All men must hide when she goes forth. C313.0.1
- Tabu: revealing dragon-fighter's identity. Dragon-fighter forbids princess whom he has rescued to tell who he is. C422.1
- Tabus of princesses. C567
- Tabu: princess stepping in water. C567.2
- Tabu: listening to princess's counsel. C815.1
- Princess's secret sickness from breaking tabu. (Cf. C55.) C940.1
- Transformation: princess to ogress. D47.3
- Paste (smeared on princess's body) turns to gold. D475.1.11
- Transformation to eagle in order to guard princess. D659.4.4
- Failure to disenchant by not watching sleeping princess long enough. D759.9
Tale types
- ATU 301 The Three Stolen Princesses
- ATU 301D* The Princess's Ring (previously Dragons Ravish Princesses)
- ATU 307 The Princess in the Coffin (previously The Princess in the Shroud)
- ATU 329 Hiding from the Princess (previously Hiding from the Devil)
- ATU 402* The Princess who Scorned an Unloved Suitor is turned into a frog (mouse, etc
- ATU 402A* The Princess Transformed into a Toad
- ATU 409A* The Girl as Snake (previously Snake Princess is Disenchanted)
- ATU 510B* The Princess in the Chest
- ATU 530 The Princess on the Glass Mountain
- ATU 550 Bird, Horse and Princess (previously Search for the Golden Bird)