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| ATU 850 The Birthmarks of the Princess | AT 850 The Princess's Birthmarks | H51.1. Recognition by birthmark. |
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H525. Test: guessing princess's birthmarks
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K1358. Girl shows herself naked in return for youth's dancing hogs.
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K443.6. Trickster exacts promise of marriage as price of silence after having seen a princess naked.
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H315. Suitor test: to whom the princess turns.
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| ATU 851 The Princess Who Cannot Solve the Riddle | AT 851 Winning the Princess with a Riddle |
H342. Suitor test: outwitting princess.
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H551. Princess offered to man who can out-riddle her.
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H565. Riddle propounded from chance experience.
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H81.2. Clandestine visit of princess to hero betrayed by token.
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H117. Identification by cut garment.
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| H792. Riddle of the unborn. | ||
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H802. Riddle: one killed none and yet killed twelve.
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H762. Riddle: what is the creature that is of all countries, that is loved by all the world, and that has no equal?
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H734. Riddle: what is the mother who devours her children when they grow up?
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H721.1. Riddle: tree with twelve branches, each with thirty leaves, black and white.
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| ATU 852 Lying Contest | AT 852 Forcing the Princess to say "That is a lie!" |
H342.1. Suitor test: forcing princess to say, "That is a lie.
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X1237. Lie: remarkable ox or steer.
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| F54.2. Plant grows to sky. | ||
| X1547.2. Lie: river of honey. | ||
| X1757. Rope of sand (chaff). | ||
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X1036.1. Lie: the great stable: distance to stall.
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| X1201. Lie: the great animal. | ||
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X1423.1. Lie: the great cabbage
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X1726.2. Man cuts off own head, picks it up and replaces it.
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X1739.2. Lie: man makes drinking water from his own skull.
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K1271.1. Threat to tell of amorous intrigue used as blackmail.
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| ATU 853 Hero Catches Princess with Her Own Words | AT 853 Catching the Princess with Her Own Words |
H507.1. Princess offered to man who can defeat her in repartee.
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H507.1.0.1. Princess defeated in repartee by means of objects accidentally picked up
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| ATU 853A "No" | AT 853A Princess Always Answers "No!" | K1331. "No!" |
| ATU 854 The Golden Ram | AT 854 Money Does Everything | H322. Suitor test: finding princess |
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K1341.1. Entrance to woman's room in golden ram
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| ATU 859 The Penniless Bridegroom Pretends to Wealth | AT 859 The Penniless Suitor |
K1917. Penniless bridegroom pretends to wealth.
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K1917.1. Penniless wooer: patch of land.
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K1917.2. Penniless wooer: money in hand.
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| K1917.4. Penniless wooer. | ||
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| ATU 870 The Princess Confined in the Mound | AT 870 The Entombed Princess |
R45. Captivity in mound (cave, hollow hill).
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| R211. Escape from prison. | ||
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K1816.0.2. Girl in menial disguise at lover's court.
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K1831. Service under a false name.
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K1843.1. Bride has maid sleep in husband's bed to conceal pregnancy.
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H13.1. Recognition by overheard conversation with animal.
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H13.2. Recognition by overheard conversation with objects.
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H151.5. Attention attracted by hints dropped by heroine as menial: recognition follows.
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H15.1. Identity tested by demanding that person say again what he said on former occasion.
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| H92. Identification by necklace. | ||
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K1911.3. Reinstatement of true bride.
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| ATU 870A The Goosegirl | AT 870A The Goosegirl | T55. Girl as wooer. |
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K1843.1. Bride has maid sleep in husband's bed to conceal pregnancy.
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| H90. Identification by ornaments | ||
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H411.1. Magic stone as chastity test.
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| ATU 871 Princess and Ogress | AT 871 Princess and Ogress | C611. Forbidden chamber |
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T11.2. Love through sight of picture.
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| D567. Transformation by sunlight. | ||
| G11.3. Cannibal witch. | ||
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F93.0.2.1. Well entrance to lower world
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C325. Tabu: looking into the pots in hell.
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N681.1. Wife finds lost husband just as he is to marry another
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| ATU 873 The King Discovers his Unknown Son | AT 873 The King Discovers his Unknown Son |
T645. Paramour leaves token with girl to give their son.
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H1381.2.2.1.1. Boy twitted with illegitimacy seeks unknown father.
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N731. Unexpected meeting of father and son.
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| H80. Identification by tokens. | ||
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L162. Lowly heroine marries prince (king).
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| ATU 875 The Clever Farmgirl | AT 875 The Clever Peasant girl |
J1111.4. Clever peasant daughter.
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H561.1.2. Found mortar taken to king reveals peasant girl's wisdom.
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H561.1. Clever peasant girl asked riddles by king.
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H583.7. King: Where shall I tie my horse? Maiden: Between summer and winter.
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H641.1. What is most beautiful? The spring.
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H631.3. What is strongest? Earth.
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| H632. Riddle: what is the swiftest? | ||
| H633. Riddle: what is sweetest? | ||
| H636. Riddle: what is the richest? | ||
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H1053. Task: coming neither on horse nor on foot (riding nor walking).
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H1054. Task: coming neither naked nor clad.
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H1023.1. Task: hatching boiled eggs.
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L162. Lowly heroine marries prince (king).
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J1191.1. Reductio ad absurdum: the decision about the colt.
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J1545.4. The exiled wife's dearest possession.
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| ATU 875A Girl's Riddling Answer Betrays a Thief | AT 875A Revealing a Thief with Riddles |
H582.1.1. The full moon and the thirtieth of the month.
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| ATU 875B Clever Girl and the King | AT 875B Task and Countertask | H1010. Impossible tasks. |
| H951. Countertasks. | ||
| J2121. Drying snow on the stove. | ||
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H1021.9. Task: sewing a shirt of stone.
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| H1024.1. Task: milking a bull. | ||
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H1024.1.1.1. Task: making a bull bear a calf.
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J1536.2. Absurdity of trying to convert king to Hinduism -- like making cow of donkey or black dog into white.
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H1023.25.1. Task: bringing well to king; countertask: sending his own well to accompany it.
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| ATU 875D Clever Young Woman at the End of the Journey | AT 875D Is the Fish Male or Female |
H586. Riddling remarks of traveling companion interpreted by girl (man) at end of journey
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D1318.2.1. Laughing fish reveals unjust judgment.
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H561.1.1.1. Clever daughter construes enigmatic sayings.
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| ATU 875B* Storytelling Saves a Wife from Death (Sheherazade) | AT 875B* Storytelling Saves a Wife from Death (Sheherazade) |
J1185.1. Scheherazade: story with indefinite sequels told to stave off execution.
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| ATU 877 The Old Woman who was Skinned | AT 877 The Old Woman who was Skinned | D1880. Magic rejuvenation. |
| ATU 879 The Basil Maiden | AT 879 The Sugar Puppet |
H702. Riddle: how many stars in the heavens?
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H705.3. How many leaves are on the tree? Counterquestion: how many stars in the sky?
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K1837. Disguise of woman in man's clothes.
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K525.1. Substituted object left in bed while intended victim escapes.
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| ATU 880 The Man Boasts of his Wife | AT 880 The Man Boasts of his Wife |
K1837. Disguise of woman in man's clothes
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R152.1. Disguised wife helps husband escape from prison
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| ATU 881 Oft-proved Fidility | AT 881 Slandered Wife Proves Her Innocence |
K2112. Woman slandered as adulteress (prostitute).
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| T320.1. Oft-proved fidelity | ||
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K1837. Disguise of woman in man's clothes
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| H21. Recognition through picture. | ||
| ATU 882 The wager on the wife's chastity (Cymbeline) | AT 882 The wager on the wife's fidelity | N15. Chastity wager. |
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K1342. Entrance into woman's (man's) room by hiding in chest
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| H94. Identification by ring | ||
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K2112.1. False tokens of woman's unfaithfulness.
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K1837. Disguise of woman in man's clothes.
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| ATU 883A Innocent Slandered Maiden | AT 883A Slandered Maiden | T320.1. Oft-proved fidelity. |
| K2110.1. Calumniated wife | ||
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K2112. Woman slandered as adulteress (prostitute).
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S322.1.3. Father condemns daughter to death because he believes her unchaste.
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K512.2. Compassionate executioner: substituted heart.
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L162. Lowly heroine marries prince (king).
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| K2250.1. Treacherous servant | ||
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T320. Escape from undesired lover.
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| ATU 884 The forgotten fiancee: Service as a Menial | AT 884 The forgotten fiancee |
K1837. Disguise of woman in man's clothes.
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H1578.1. Test of sex of girl masking as man.
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T84. Lovers treacherously separated.
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T165.4. Bride and groom separated on wedding night.
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N681.1. Wife finds lost husband just as he is to marry another.
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K1816.0.2. Girl in menial disguise at lover's court.
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| D2003. Forgotten fiancée | ||
| ATU 887 Griselda | AT 887 Griselda | H461. Test of wife's patience. |
| ATU 888 The Faithful Wife | AT 888 Wife Rescues Her Husband from Slavery | R61. Person sold into slavery. |
| H431.1. Shirt as chastity index. | ||
| T320.1. Oft-proved fidelity. | ||
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K1837. Disguise of woman in man's clothes.
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R152.1. Disguised wife helps husband escape from prison.
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| ATU 888A Wife Who Would Not be Beaten | AT 888A Clever Wife Saves Her Husbands Fortune |
M134. Prince vows to marry no woman unless he can beat her daily
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K1837. Disguise of woman in man's clothes.
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J1545.6. Wife by cleverness wins back fortune overbearing husband has foolishly lost and humbles him.
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| H80. Identification by tokens. | ||
| ATU 889 Wager on the Faithfulness of the Servant | AT 889 The Truthful Servant |
N25. Wager on truthfulness of servant.
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| J751.1. Truth the best policy. | ||
| ATU 890 The Pound of Flesh | AT 890 The Pound of Flesh |
T52.3. Bride purchased for her weight in gold.
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K443.2. Clever wife gets money from those who attempt to seduce her.
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K1825.2. Woman masks as lawyer (judge) and frees her husband.
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| ATU 891 The Man Who Deserts his Wife | AT 891 Wife, in Disguise, Seduces her own Husband |
H1187. Task left by departing husband for virgin wife to accomplish: have a son whose real mother she is and whose real father he is.
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K1814. Woman in disguise wooed by her faithless husband.
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| ATU 891A Crystal Palace | AT 891A The Girl in the Tower |
M372. Confinement in tower to avoid fulfillment of prophecy.
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T381. Imprisoned virgin to prevent knowledge of men (marriage, impregnation).
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K1837. Disguise of woman in man's clothes.
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| ATU 891B The King's Glove | AT 891B The King's Glove | na |
| ATU 892 The children of the king | AT 892 The Slandered Fiancee |
K2112.1. False tokens of woman's unfaithfulness.
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| ATU 893 The Unreliable Friends. | AT 893 A Test of Friendship |
H1558.1. Test of friendship: the half-friend.
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R169.6. Youth saved from death sentence by father's friend
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| ATU 894 Ghoulish Schoolmaster and the Stone of Pity | AT 894 Ghoulish Schoolmaster | G11.9. Ogre schoolmaster. |
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K2155.1. Blood smeared on innocent person brings accusation of murder.
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H13.2.2. Recognition by overheard conversation with stone.
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| ATU 897 Orphan Girl and Her Cruel Sister-in-Law | AT 897 Cruel Sister-in-Law |
H934.2. Sisters-in-law impose tasks.
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H1023.19. Task: bringing bundle of faggots without rope to tie them.
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B579.5. Serpent acts as a rope to collect wood for man.
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| H1361.1. Quest for tiger's milk. | ||
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H1023.2. Task: carrying water in a sieve.
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H1023.2.1.2. Task: carrying water in leaky vessel; frog sits in hole.
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H1091.2. Task: sorting grains; performed by helpful birds.
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| ATU 898 The Daughter of the Sun | AT 898 The Daughter of the Sun |
T381. Imprisoned virgin to prevent knowledge of men (marriage, impregnation).
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| T521. Conception from sunlight. | ||
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S313. Child of supernatural birth exposed.
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R131.11.3. Prince rescues abandoned child.
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| ATU 899 Alcestis | AT 899 Wife Sacrifices Herself for Husband |
M341.1.1. Prophecy: death on wedding day.
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T211.1. Wife dies so that husband's death may be postponed.
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| ATU Classification Type | AT Classification Type | Thompson Motif |
| ATU 900 King Thrushbeard | AT 900 King Thrushbeard | H311. Inspection test for suitors. |
| T76. Princess calls her suitors ugly names. | ||
| T62. Princess to marry first man who asks for her. | ||
| K1816.0.3. Menial disguise of princess's lover. | ||
| K1817.1. Disguise as beggar (pauper). | ||
| T72.2.1. Prince marries scornful girl and punishes her. | ||
| T45. Lover buys admission to woman's room. | ||
| K1361. Beggar buys right to sleep before the girl's door, at foot of bed, in the bed. | ||
| L113.1.0.1. Heroine endures hardships with menial husband. | ||
| L431. Arrogant mistress repaid in kind by her lover. | ||
| H461. Test of wife's patience. | ||
| H465. Test of wife's endurance | ||
| Q483. Princess must sell goods on market as punishment. | ||
| H181. Recognition by unmasking. | ||
| ATU 901 Taming of the Shrew | AT 901 Taming of the Shrew | L50. Victorious youngest daughter. |
| T251.2. Taming the shrew. | ||
| H386. Bride test: obedience. | ||
| N12. Wager on the most obedient wife. | ||
| ATU 902* The Lazy Woman is Cured | AT 902* Curing the Lazy Woman | Q495.1. Lazy wife taken naked in bundle of straw to a wedding. |
| Q495. Punishment: unseemly exposure of body. |
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| ATU 910A Father's Precepts Disregarded | AT 910A Enigmatic Advice Proves to be Valuable | J154. Wise words of dying father. |
| J21.22. "Do not tell a secret to a woman" | ||
| J21.46. "Do not make friends with a policeman (soldier)" | ||
| J21.28. "Do not trust a ruler who rules by reason alone" | ||
| J21.27. "Do not adopt a child": | ||
| J21.9. "Do not visit your friends often" | ||
| 21.4. "Do not marry a girl from abroad": | ||
| J21.47.1. "Do not send your wife for a long visit to her parents" | ||
| J21.26. "Don't be too greedy in making a trade" | ||
| J21.24. "Do not make a horse run down hill": | ||
| J21.10. "Do not lend out your horse" | ||
| ATU 910B Observance of the Master's Precepts | AT 910B Advice Well Taken | J21.5. "Do not leave the highway" |
| J21.6. "Do not ask questions about extraordinary things" | ||
| J21.3. "Do not go where an old man has a young wife" | ||
| J21.2. "Do not act when angry" | ||
| J1655.2. Valuable rubies baked in bread. | ||
| C320. Tabu: looking into certain receptacle. | ||
| J865. Consolation by thinking of some good aspect of a situation. | ||
| D758. Disenchantment by maintaining silence. | ||
| K2213.3. Faithless wife plots with paramour against husband's life. | ||
| K2155. Evidence of crime left so that dupe is blamed. | ||
| J571. Avoid hasty judgment. | ||
| Q20.2. Fulfillment of precepts rewarded. | ||
| ATU 910C Think Carefully Before You Begin a Task | AT 910C Consider the Consequences | J21.1. "Consider the end" |
| ATU 910D Treasure Behind the Nail | AT 910D Man Hangs Himself and Finds a Treasuer | J21.15. "If you wish to hang yourself, do so by the stone which I point out" |
| N545.1. Man in despair preparing to hang himself finds treasure in the tree (beam). | ||
| ATU 910E "Find the Treasure in Our Vineyard" | AT 910E Treasure in the Vineyard | H588.7. Father's counsel: find treasure within a foot of the ground. |
| ATU 910F Quarreling Sons and the Bundle of Twigs | AT 910F Strength of a Bundle of Sticks | J1021. The quarreling sons and the bundle of twigs |
| ATU 910G Man Buys a Pennyworth of Wit | AT 910G Buying Advice | J163.1. Man buys a pennyworth of wit |
| ATU 920B Birds Chosen by the Sons of the King | AT 920B What Kind of Bird? | J412.1. Prince of democratic tastes chosen |
| ATU 920C Shooting at the Father's Corpse as a Test of Paternity | AT 920C Shooting at the Father's Corpse | L13. Compassionate youngest son. |
| H486.2. Test of paternity: shooting at father's corpse. | ||
| ATU 921 The King and the Farmer's Son | AT 921 The Peasant's Clever Son | H583. Clever youth (maiden) answers king's inquiry in riddles. |
| H583.1. King: What do you see? Youth: One and a half men and a horse's head. | ||
| H583.2. King: What is your father doing? Youth: He is in the vineyard and is doing good and bad | ||
| H583.3. King: What is your brother doing? Youth: He hunts; he throws away what he catches and what he does not catch he carries with him. | ||
| H583.4. King: What is your mother doing? Youth: She does for another what the latter cannot do for her. | ||
| H583.5. King: What is your sister doing? Youth: She is mourning last year's laughter. | ||
| H583.6. King: What are you doing? Youth: I boil those which come and go. | ||
| ATU 921A Sharing of Bread or Money | AT 921A Four Payments | H585.1. The four coins. |
| ATU 921B* Beggar, Thief, Murderer | AT 921B* Beggar, Thief, Murderer | NA |
| ATU 921C* Astronomer and Doctor at Farmer's House | AT 921C* Astronomer, Watchmaker, and Doctor | L144.2. Farmer surpasses astronomer and doctor in predicting weather and choosing food. |
| ATU 921D* Witty Answers | AT 921D* Witty Responses | J1252. Quibbling answers |
| ATU 922 The Shepherd Substituting for the Clergyman Answers the Kings Questions | AT 922 The King, the Abbot, and the Shepherd | H561.2. King and abbot. |
| H512. Guessing with life as wager. | ||
| H541.1. Riddle propounded on pain of death. | ||
| K1961. Sham churchman. | ||
| Q113.4. Appointment to priesthood as reward. | ||
| H691.1. Riddle: how much does the moon weigh? | ||
| H705.2. How many leaves are on the tree? So and so many; and if you don't believe it, go count them | ||
| H705.1. How many leaves are on the tree? As many as there are stems for. | ||
| H702. Riddle: how many stars in the heavens? | ||
| H696.1. Riddle: how much water is in the sea? | ||
| H703. Riddle: how many hairs are in the head? | ||
| H701.1. How many seconds in eternity? A bird carries a grain of sand from a mountain each century; when the whole mountain is gone, the first second of eternity has passed | ||
| H681.1. Riddle: how far is it from one end of the earth to the other (east to west)? | ||
| H711.1. How much am I (the king) worth? Twenty-nine pieces of silver, for Christ was sold for thirty. | ||
| H634. Riddle: what is the sweetest song? | ||
| H713.1. How much is a golden plow (throne, crown, palace) worth? A rain in May | ||
| H797. Riddle: what does God do? | ||
| ATU 923 Love Like Salt | AT 923 Love Like Salt | H592.1. "Love like Salt. |
| M21. King Lear judgment. | ||
| ATU 924 Discussion in Sign Language | AT 924 Fighting with Symbols | J1804. Conversation by sign language mutually misunderstood. |
| H607.1. Discussion between priest and Jew carried on by symbols. | ||
| ATU 926 Judgment of Solomon | AT 926 Two Women Claim One Child | J1171.1. Solomon's judgment: the divided child |
| ATU 926C Cases Solved in a Manner Worthy of Solomon | AT 926C Wise Judges | J1141. Confession obtained by a ruse. |
| J1172.1. Not the same purse as was lost. | ||
| J1141.1. Guilty person deceived into gesture (act) which admits guilt. | ||
| J1141.1.4. "Guilty man's stick will grow during night." | ||
| J1179.6. Thread awarded to disputant who knows what it was wound on. | ||
| J1154.2. Witnesses to make image of diamond they claim to have seen. | ||
| ATU 927 Out-riddling the Judge | AT 927 Out-riddling the Judge | H542. Death sentence escaped by propounding riddle king (judge) cannot solve |
| H804. Riddle: from the eater came forth meat and from the strong sweetness | ||
| H793. Riddle: seven tongues in a head. | ||
| H806. Riddle: drink this wine which a bird took to nest. | ||
| H807. Formerly I was daughter, now I am mother; I have a son who was the husband of my mother. | ||
| H805. Riddle of the murdered lover. | ||
| H792. Riddle of the unborn. | ||
| ATU 929 Clever Defences | AT 929 Clever Defences | J1130. Cleverness in law court -- general. |
| N178. Loss of eye saves man from execution |
| ATU Classification Type | AT Classification Type | Thompson Motif |
| ATU 930 The Prophecy | AT 930 Poor Boy to Marry Rich Girl | M312.1. Prophecy: wealthy marriage for poor boy. |
| K978. Uriah letter. | ||
| K511. Uriah letter changed. | ||
| K1355. Altered letter of execution gives princess to hero. | ||
| ATU 930A Predestined Wife | AT 930A Poor Girl to Marry a Rich Boy | T22.2. Predestined wife. |
| M359.2. Prophecy: prince's marriage to common woman. | ||
| M312.1.1. Prophecy: wealthy marriage for poor girl. | ||
| M370. Vain attempts to escape fulfillment of prophecy. | ||
| S115.2. Murder by sticking needle through head. | ||
| S143. Abandonment in forest. | ||
| R131. Exposed or abandoned child rescued. | ||
| H51. Recognition by scar. | ||
| N101. Inexorable fate. | ||
| ATU 931 Oedipus | AT 931 Oedipus | M343. Parricide prophecy |
| M371.2. Exposure of child to prevent fulfillment of parricide prophecy. | ||
| R131. Exposed or abandoned child rescued | ||
| S354. Exposed infant reared at strange king's court (Joseph, Oedipus). | ||
| N323. Parricide prophecy unwittingly fulfilled | ||
| T412. Mother-son incest. | ||
| ATU 934 Tales of the Predestined Death | AT 934 Prophecy of Death | M341.1. Prophecy: death at (before, within) certain time. |
| M301.12. Three fates, "norns", prophesy at child's birth. | ||
| M341.2.2. Prophecy: death by storm. | ||
| M341.1.1.4. Prophecy: death on entrance to the marriage chamber. | ||
| M341.2.6. Prophecy: death by wolf. | ||
| M341.2.21. Prophecy: death from snakebite | ||
| M341.2.3. Prophecy: death by drowning | ||
| F901.1.1. Extraordinary threefold death: wounding, burning, drowning. | ||
| M370. Vain attempts to escape fulfillment of prophecy. | ||
| M372. Confinement in tower to avoid fulfillment of prophecy. | ||
| M341.2. Prophecy: death by particular instrument. | ||
| M370.1. Prophecy of death fulfilled. | ||
| ATU 935 The Prodigal's Return | AT 935 The Prodigal Son's Return | L161. Lowly hero marries princess |
| K1815. Humble disguise | ||
| K1837. Disguise of woman in man's clothes. | ||
| ATU 938 Placidas | AT 938 First Misfortune, then Good Luck | J214. Choice: suffering in youth or old age. |
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| ATU 945 Luck and Intelligence. | AT 945 Intelligence or Luck? | H343. Suitor test: bringing dumb princess to speak. |
| F954.2.1. Dumb princess is brought to speech by tale ending with a question to be solved. | ||
| Z16.1. Four brothers construct a woman. | ||
| F1023. Creation of a person by cooperation of skillful men. | ||
| D435.1.1. Transformation: statue comes to life. | ||
| H621. Skillful companions create woman: to whom does she belong? | ||
| N141. Luck or intelligence? Dispute as to which is the more powerful. | ||
| ATU 947 The Man Followed by Bad Luck | AT 947 Pursued by Bad Luck | N253. Safety in shadow of wall |
| ATU Classification Type | AT Classification Type | Thompson Motif |
| ATU 950 Rhampsinitus | AT 950 The Thief's Corpse | K315.1. Thief enters treasury through passage made by him as architect of the building |
| J1143. Thief detected by building straw fire so that smoke escapes through thief's entrance | ||
| K730. Victim trapped. | ||
| K407.1. Thief has his companion cut off his head so that he may escape detection. | ||
| J1142.4. Thief's corpse carried through street to see who will weep for him. | ||
| K332. Theft by making owner drunk. | ||
| K425. King's daughter put into brothel to catch thief. | ||
| H58. Tell-tale hand-mark | ||
| K415. Marked culprit marks everyone else and escapes detection. | ||
| ATU 952 The King and the Soldier | AT 952 The King and the Soldier | D2072. Magic paralysis |
| K422. Thief rendered helpless by magic. | ||
| N884.1. Robber helps king. | ||
| K1812.1. Incognito king helped by humble man. | ||
| ATU 953 The Robber and His Sons | AT 953 Three Frightful Tales | R153.3.3. Old robber frees his three sons: relates frightful adventures. |
| J1185. Execution escaped by story-telling. | ||
| K1011. Eye-remedy. | ||
| K527. Escape by substituting another person in place of the intended victim. | ||
| Q53. Reward for rescue. | ||
| ATU 954 The Forty Thieves (Ali Baba) | AT 954 Killing the Thieves Hidden in Casks | D1552.2. Mountain opens to magic formula (Open Sesame). |
| N455.3. Secret formula for opening treasure mountain overheard from robbers (Open Sesame). | ||
| N512. Treasure in underground chamber (cavern). | ||
| N478. Secret wealth betrayed by money left in borrowed money-scales. | ||
| N471. Foolish attempt of second man to overhear secrets (from animals, demons etc.) | ||
| K312. Thieves hidden in oil casks. | ||
| ATU 955 The Robber Bridegroom | AT 955 The Robber Bridegroom | K1916. Robber bridegroom |
| R135. Abandoned children (wife, etc.) find way back by clue (bread-crumb, grain, pebble, etc.). | ||
| B143.1. Bird gives warning. | ||
| H57.2.1. Severed finger as sign of crime. | ||
| ATU 956 Hot Chamber in the House of Robbers | AT 956A At the Murderer's House (now ATU 956) | K912. Robbers' (giants') heads cut off one by one as they enter house. |
| ATU 958C* Robber in Shroud | AT 958C* Robber Disguised as a Corpse | K311.1. Thief disguised as corpse. |
| ATU 958E* Deep Sleep Brought on by a Robber | AT 958E* Hand of Glory | K437.2. Robber with hand of glory killed. |
| ATU 960 The Sun Brings All to Light | AT 960 The Sun Brings All to Light | D1715. Magic power of dying man's words. |
| N271.1. The sun brings all to light. | ||
| ATU 960A Cranes of Ibycus | AT 960A Birds Witness a Crime | N271.3. The Cranes of Ibycus |
| ATU 967 Man Saved by a Spider Web | AT 967 Saved by a Spider Web | B523.1. Spider-web over hole saves fugitive. |
| ATU 968 Miscellaneous Robber and Murder Stories | AT 968 Robbers and Murderers | K434.1. The girl seizes the robber concealed under the bed by the beard and says: "What a coarse bundle of flax. |
| K434.3. Girl tells the thief money is in chest. | ||
| S121. Murder by slamming down chest-lid. | ||
| K343.0.1. Innkeeper deceived into going under the floor of the granary; meantime robbed. |
| ATU Classification Type | AT Classification Type | Thompson Motif |
| ATU 973 Man as Sacrifice to the Storm | AT 973 Throwing a Man Overboard to Stop a Storm | S264.1. Man thrown overboard to placate storm. |
| ATU 974 The Homecoming Husband | AT 974 Returning Man's Wife is About to Remarry | N681. Husband (lover) arrives home just as wife (mistress) is to marry another |
| ATU 976 Which was the Noblest Act? | AT 976 Which was the Noblest Act? | H1552.1. Which was the most generous -- husband, robber, or lover? |
| ATU 980 Ungrateful Son | AT 980 Children Neglect Their Old Parents | J121. Ungrateful son reproved by naïve action of his own son: preparing for old age. |
| J121.2. Undutiful son rebuked by father. | ||
| ATU 980 Ungrateful Son | AT 980A Half a Blanket (now ATU 980) | NA |
| ATU 980 Ungrateful Son | AT 980B The Wooden Bowl (now ATU 980) | NA |
| ATU 980 Ungrateful Son | AT 980C Dragging the Old Father Only to the Gate (now ATU 980) | NA |
| ATU 980D Meat Springs as a Toad on the Face of an Ungrateful Son | AT 980D A Toad in the Face of an Ungrateful Son | D444.2. Transformation: meat to toad. |
| ATU 981 Wisdom of Hidden Old Man Saves Kingdom | AT 981 Saved by and Old Man's Wisdom | J151.1. Wisdom of hidden old man saves kingdom. |
| ATU 982 Pretended Inheritance | AT 982 Old Father's Treasure | P236.2. Supposed chest of gold induces children to care for aged father. |
| Q281.1. Ungrateful children punished. | ||
| ATU 986 The Lazy Husband | AT 986 Lazy Man Finds a Treasure | NA |
| ATU 987 False Magician Exposed by Clever Girl | AT 987 False Magician Exposed by Clever Girl | NA |
| ATU 990 Seemingly Dead Revives | AT 990 Dead Woman Revived by a Grave Robber | K426. Apparently dead woman revives when thief tries to steal from her grave. |
| ATU 992 The Eaten Heart | AT 992 An Adulteress Eats Her Lover's Heart | Q478.1. The Eaten Heart. |
| ATU 992A Adulteress's Penance | AT 992A Woman Drinks from her Lover's Skull | NA |
