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- Pleiades a princess and six suitors among whom she could not choose. A773.1
- Damsel whose voice turns her suitors to stone. D581.1
- Demon suitors of girl. F402.1.15
- Inspection test for suitors. Suitors for princess's hand must present themselves for public inspection. (Cf. H362, T55.7.) H311
- Physical and mental requirements for suitors. H312
- Suitors chosen with feet as only part seen. H312.3
- Suitor test: to whom the princess turns. Rival suitors sleep with princess. The one she turns to is to have her. They vie in enticements. H315
- Suitor contest: bride offered to the one distinguishing himself most in battle. Girl loves both suitors equally. H331.2.1.1
- Suitors contest with bride's father in shooting. H331.4.1
- Tasks assigned suitors. Bride as prize for accomplishment. (For nature of tasks see H1000ff.) H335
- Girl assigns tasks to her suitors. H335.0.2
- Suitor task: to kill all earlier suitors. H335.4.3
- Suitors assigned quests. H336
- Suitor test: to consort with princess without sleeping. Suitors are given sleeping potion. H347
- Suitors receive enigmatic answers. Girls answer in single words, which, when arranged in certain order, show that they accept. H593
- Question (on quest): How can the girl thus far avoided by suitors marry? (Various answers.) H1292.5
- Solomon's judgment: the divided bride. Three suitors dispute over a woman. When it is proposed to divide her, true lover is discovered. J1171.2
- Numskull praises his daughter as being pregnant. He tries in vain to sell his cow and succeeds only when he says that she is with calf. When suitors come wooing his daughter, he tries the same plan disastrously. J2427
- Fool learns to repeat commonplace expressions: by chance thus scares off wife's suitors. J2461.2.2
- The entrapped suitors. (Lai l'épervier.) The chaste wife has them one at a time undress and hide. The husband and guests come and chase them off. K1218.1