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Motifs — first 20 of 43
- God carries brothers and sisters on his back in basket. A137.4.1
- The seven grain sisters. A433.2
- Sun and moon as sisters, daughters of sky-god. A736.4
- Moon is wife to all twelve brothers of the sun and they have her a month at a time because she ate up her sisters. A753.1.4.2
- Why brothers and sisters do not marry. A1552.1
- Tabu: reproaching supernatural wife about her sisters. C31.11
- Girl lives in fruit and comes out only to be bathed by her twenty sisters. F562.4
- Three witch sisters. Sometimes simply three hags. G201
- Wit combat among three sisters for additional dowry. Replies to husbands when their premarital pregnancy is noticed. H507.4
- Test: to guess which of veiled sisters has golden hair. H511.2
- Tasks assigned at suggestion of jealous brothers (sisters). H912
- Maiden queen sets hero three dangerous tasks in order to disenchant her sisters. (Cf. F565.3.) H933.2
- Sisters-in-law impose tasks. H934.2
- Tasks set by cruel sisters-in-law to get tigress. H939.3
- Task: guarding six sisters-in-law so that they do not joke or talk to anyone. H1199.17.2
- The lisping sisters. The girls have been warned against speaking, but forget and are found out. K1984.1
- Stepsisters scatter sugar in girl's litter so that flies congregate; would-be bridegroom disgusted and tells bearers to abandon her in jungle. K2129.3
- Treacherous stepsisters. K2212.1
- Youngest daughter agrees to marry a monster; later the sisters are jealous. L54.1
- Youngest daughter avoids seducer. Elder sisters have been deceived. L63
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