Search
Motifs — first 20 of 21
- Moon as wooer. The moon is enamored of a mortal. A753.1
- Animal wooer. B582.1
- Reptile as wooer. B622
- Serpent as wooer. B622.1
- Crocodile as wooer. B622.2
- Tortoise as wooer. B622.3
- Bird as wooer. B623
- Crane as wooer. B623.1
- Fish as wooer. B625
- Half-man, half-fish as wooer. B625.0.1
- Fairies slay wooer (or his kin) of fairy maiden. F361.6
- The servant to improve on the master's statements. The wooer makes boasts to the girl and the servant always doubles the master's boast. Finally the master says, "I have poor eyesight." – The servant, "You don't see at all." (Or the master coughs and apologizes; the servant says that he coughs all night.) J2464
- Respite from wooer while he brings clothes all night. The girl wastes time trying them on. K1227.3
- Penniless wooer: patch of land. After marriage he takes the bride to look at his land. He puts on soiled clothes. She looks at the land; he points to the patch on his clothes. "That patch is mine." K1917.1
- Penniless wooer: money in hand. An uncle gives the boy a coin and food to hold while he woos for him. He tells the girl's father that the boy has a piece of money in hand and plenty to eat. Wins the girl. K1917.2
- Penniless wooer: helpful animal reports master wealthy and thus wins girl for him. K1917.3
- Penniless wooer. "House of my father with one hundred fifty lights and goat pen." When the servant in bed so remarks the master marries his daughter to him. Arrived at the hut, he explains that the lights are the stars whose beams enter through the cracks in the roof. One goat is tied to the tree. K1917.4
- "All of these are mine," says wooer as he strokes his whiskers. The girl thinks he is indicating the fields and live stock past which they are riding. K1917.7
- Love falsely pledged for wooer's benefit. K2094
- Wooers slain to avoid fulfillment of prophecy. M375.4