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Motifs — first 20 of 180
- Queen of the gods. A161.3
- Sea-queen and hand maidens entice lovers. A421.1.1
- Queen of watersnakes. B244.1.1
- Parrot gives advice to queen playing chess, and she always wins. B565
- Tabu: marrying queen of certain race. C162.1
- Transformation: king and queen to peasant and wife. D24.2
- Queen transforms herself to defeat god of death. D651.1.3
- Disenchantment from bird when queen milks own milk into bird's beak. (Cf. D764.1.) D759.2
- Disenchantment by drinking milk of queen who has borne two boys. (Cf. D759.2.) D764.1
- Speaking lamp prevents king from killing queen. (Cf. D1162.) D1381.29
- Magic knowledge from queen of other world. (Cf. D1723.) D1810.1
- Magician appears as swineherd, dwarf, and giant in order to seduce queen and scorns her later in the same shapes. D2031.4.2
- Saint causes fiery sword to come between hostile king and queen. D2196
- Hero fights in otherworld and overcomes king (queen), or fairy. F176
- Otherworld queen. F185
- Fairy queen. F252.2
- Burial service for fairy queen is held at night in Christian church. F268.1
- Prince married to a she-monkey (really queen of the fairies). F302.11
- Fairy queen's beauty temporarily destroyed by intercourse with mortal. F304.2
- Three fairies sent to queen about to give birth to child. F312.3
Tale types
- ATU 1446 'Let them Eat Cake!' When the queen was told that the poor people had no bread, she answered, 'Let them eat cake!' [J2227]
- ATU 462 The Outcast Queens and the Ogress Queen
- ATU 514** A Young Woman Disguised as a Man is Wooed by the Queen (previously The Court Physician)
- ATU 706C The Father who Wanted to Marry his Daughter (previously Lecherous Father as Queen's Persecutor)
- ATU 871A The Unfaithful Queen
- ATU 905A* The Wicked Queen Reformed by Whipping by a Cobbler