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- Riddle: what six things are not worth doing? (Sowing salt, mowing pebbles, drinking from an empty jug, making signs to a blind man, wooing at mealtime, playing a harp in a mill.) H871
- 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
- Seduction (or wooing) on an aerial journey. K1334
- Seduction (or wooing) by stealing clothes of bathing girl (swan maiden). K1335
- Wooing emissary poses as king and suitor, but is refused. K1952.5
- Wooing. T50
- Wooing by emissary. T51
- Wooing emissary wins lady's love for himself. T51.1
- Wooing emissary admitted to woman's room. Elopes with her. (Cf. K1349.1.5.) T51.1.1
- Wooing the strong and beautiful bride. T58
- Help in wooing. (Cf. B582.) T66
- Wooing – miscellaneous motifs. T69
- Parents wooing one of seven daughters for their son. T69.2.1
- Bashful suitor directs his wooing to an oak. T69.4