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- Pleiades a princess and six suitors among whom she could not choose. A773.1
- Fly indicates successful suitor. Girl to marry man on whom specially marked fly lights. B152.2
- Fly helps loathly suitor pass suitor test. B587.2
- Animal suitor. B620
- Daughter promised to animal suitor. B620.1
- Beast as suitor. B621
- Bear as suitor. (Cf. B601.1, B611.1, B635.1.) B621.1
- Lion as suitor. B621.2
- Tiger as suitor. B621.3
- Rat as suitor. B621.4
- Leopard as suitor. B621.5
- Pig as suitor. B621.6
- Horse as suitor. B621.7
- Owl as suitor. B623.2
- Magpie as suitor. B623.3
- Crow as suitor. B623.4
- Cock as suitor. B623.5
- Damsel whose voice turns her suitors to stone. D581.1
- Magic sleep induced by disappointed suitor. D1964.2
- Demon suitors of girl. F402.1.15
Tale types
- ATU 1459* The Suitor Takes Offense at a Word used by the girl
- ATU 1462 The Unwilling Suitor Advised from the Tree
- ATU 1688A* Jealous Suitors
- ATU 1691A Hungry Suitor Brings Food from Home
- ATU 1691B Bad Table Manners (previously The Suitor who Does not Know how to Behave at Table)
- ATU 1730 The Entrapped Suitors
- ATU 402* The Princess who Scorned an Unloved Suitor is turned into a frog (mouse, etc
- ATU 65 The She-Fox's Suitors
- ATU 653B The Suitors Restore the Maiden to Life
- ATU 860 Nuts of 'Ay ay ay!' A princess is offered to any man who can bring a glass containing all kinds of water, a bouquet of all the flowers, and nuts of ay, ay, ay! A suitor brings seawater, a beehive, and hazelnuts with thorns so that the king cries, 'Ay, ay, ay!' [H1377