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Motifs — first 20 of 45
- Marriage between close relatives. A1552
- Origin of royal marriages with close relatives. A1552.2
- Girl's animal lover slain by spying relatives. B610.1
- Relatives kill animal-husband but wife throws herself into pyre. B691
- Tabu: offending other animal relatives. C37
- Tabu connected with husband's or wife's relatives. C170
- Forsaken merman. Tabu: association of fairy's (merman's, etc.) human wife (husband) with human relatives. C713
- Magic object stolen by relatives. D861.8
- Ghost drives away his relatives who are trying to get estate from his wife. E236.6
- Fairy takes revenge for slaying of his relatives. F361.8
- The relatives of the devil. G303.11
- Cannibal is killed by his wife's relatives. G551.5
- Token sent with youth to relatives, that they may take care of him. H82.6
- Enigmatic counsels of relatives (other than father). H596
- Relationship riddles arising from unusual marriages of relatives. H795
- Quest to other world to take letters to dead relatives. H1252.2
- Quest for relatives sold to the otherworld. H1252.3
- Difficult choice between relatives. J226
- Choices: kind strangers, unkind relatives. J390
- Grain will be cut when farmer attends to it himself. Lark leaves her young in the cornfield. They hear farmer tell sons to go to neighbors for help in harvesting. Lark tells young not to worry. Same when he sends for relatives. Farmer decides to harvest it himself. Larks move, for they now know that it will be done. J1031