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F 781.1 Labyrinth

F 708 Countries with one conspicuous lack
Q 221.6 Lack of trust in God punished
W 196 Lack of patience

A 666 Ladder to heaven
F 848 Extraordinary ladder (stairs)

D 52.3 (G) Ugly woman becomes beautiful
D 732 Loathly lady
F 112.2 City [castle] of women
F 234.2.5 Fairy in form of beautiful young woman
F 302 Fairy mistress
F 575.1 Remarkably beautiful woman
H 335.0.2 Girl assigns tasks to her suitors
H 413 Special powers of chaste woman.
H 933 Princess sets hero tasks
H 974.1 Task performed with help of mistress
H 1232.2 Directions on quest given by queen (lady)
K 2111 Potiphar’s wife
K 2112 Woman slandered as adulteress (prostitute) [concubine]
K 2116.1 Innocent woman accused of murder
K 2231 Treacherous mistress
K 2246.0.1 Treacherous princess (queen)
M 146.8 (Bm) Vow to marry lady who helps achieve task
P 52.1 Knight’s duty to perform as lady bids
P 52.2 (Li) Knight in service of a lady
P 60 Noble (gentle) ladies
P 63 (Bm) Lady in armor (and battle)
P 95 Impossible to refuse the request of a troubled nobleman [lady]
P 555.4 (Bm) Defeated knights [giant, rescued persons etc.] sent under oath to king [lady, queen] (as proof of victory)
Q 53.3 Maiden queen offers her hand as reward for rescuing her town
Q 112.0.5.1 Lady as reward
R 10.1 Princess (maiden) abducted
R 11.1 Princess (maiden) abducted by monster (ogre) [monstrous race]
R 101 Abduction of lady
R 111 Rescue of captive maiden.
R 111.1 Princess (maiden) rescued from captor
R 111.1.4 Rescue of princess (maiden) from giant (monster)
R 111.1.9 Princess rescued from undesired suitor
R 161 Lover [unwelcome suitor] rescues his lady
R 161.0.1 Hero rescued by his lady
R 161.1 Lover rescues his lady from abductor.
R 161.4 Lover rescues his lady from the gallows [stake]
R 169.1 Hero in disguise (of foolish knight, then of black knight) rescues lady
R 169.1.1 (Bm) Knight rescues abducted lady.
T 31.0.1 (Bm) Knight places himself in would-be lady’s service
T 31.1 Lovers’ meeting: Hero in service of lady’s father
T 68.7 (Bm) Princess [maiden] as prize in tournament [single combat]
T 99.4 (Bm) Defeated warring suitor at lady’s mercy is forgiven
V 301.1 (Li) The high-minded, noble heathen

A 671.2.4.1 Sea of fire in hell
D 878.1 Magic sword returned to lake whence it was received
D 921 Magic lake (pond [swamp]).
D 921.1 Lake (pond) produced by magic
D 1524 Magic object enables person to cross water
D 2091.7 Magic lake (river) sent against enemy
F 141 Water barrier to otherworld
F 142 River of fire as barrier to otherworld
F 162.6 Lakes in otherworld
F 713 Extraordinary pond (lake)
F 934 Extraordinary occurrences connected with lakes

J 391.1 Lamb chooses her foster-mother, the she-goat
U 31 Wolf unjustly accuses lamb and eats him [Stronger animal unjustly accuses weaker to damage him]

D 2064 Magic sickness
D 2161.3.7 Lameness magically cured
Q 551.6 Magic sickness as punishment

E 547 The dead wail.
F 966 Voices from heaven (or from the air)
F 1041.21 Reactions to excessive grief

D 1162.1 Magic lamp
D 1601.7 Lamp (fire) lights itself.
D 1652.6 Ever-burning lamp

D 454.9.1 Transformation: spear to other object
D 1084 Magic spear
D 1086 Magic lance
D 1404 Magic object pierces
F 830 Extraordinary weapons
F 831.3.1 (Bm) Poisoned dart
F 832 Extraordinary lance
F 834 Extraordinary spear
F 991.1 Bleeding lance.
F 991.1.2 (G) Longin’s lance
H 1320.1 Quest for magic object: [grail].
H 1345 Quest for magic spear
P 19.4.0.1 King’s wand (rod) [regalia]
Z 312 Unique deadly weapon

C 934.2 Land made sterile because of broken tabu
D 705 Place [land] disenchanted
D 1338.7 Land of youth. Land which keeps off old age
D 1380.0.1 Magic object protects a city [land]
D 1408 Magic object devastates country
D 1533.1.1 Magic land and water ship
D 2081 Land made magically sterile
D 2157.1 Land made magically fertile
E 481.1 Land of dead in lower world
E 481.2.2 Boat to land of dead
E 481.9 King of world of the dead
F 81.1.2 Journey to land of dead to visit deceased
F 110 Journey to terrestrial otherworlds
F 112 Journey to land of women
F 112.0.1 Fairyland (Ireland) inhabited (settled) by women only
F 112.0.2 Separation of sexes in otherworld
F 116 Journey to the land of the Immortals
F 123 Journey to land of little men (pygmies)
F 129.7 Journey to land of naked people
F 133.1 Marine counterpart to land
F 145 Mountains at borders of otherworld
F 173 Otherworld land of happiness.
F 173.2 Otherworld land of peace
F 211 Fairyland [dwarfs] under hollow knoll
F 213 Fairyland on island.
F 562 People of unusual residence
F 566.2 Land where women live separate from men
F 700 Extraordinary places (lands)
F 701 Land of plenty
F 704 Land of cold and mist
F 706 Land of darkness
F 707 Extraordinary kingdom
F 708 Countries with one conspicuous lack
F 708.4 (Li) Country without snakes
F 709 Other extraordinary countries
F 709.1 Country of the naked
F 709.3 Country of thieves and impostors
F 709.4 (Bm) Land of two summers and no winters [without extreme weather elements]
F 709.4.1 (Bm) Land of two summers and two winters
F 709.9 (Bm) Land of cannibals who eat their own elders
F 771.5 Extraordinary guard for castle (land)
K 185.1 Deceptive land purchase- ox-hide measure
M 207 Land grants (bargains).
M 474 Curse on land
N 399.1.1 (Bm) Wind carries ship to hostile [unknown] island [land]
Q 10.1 (Bm) Reward for saving land from giant.
Q 111.8 Large quantity of land as reward
Q 112.0.1 Kingdom as reward
Q 113.1.1 (Bm) Earldom (and castle) as reward
Q 113.6 (Bm) Lands and duchy as reward
V 531 Pilgrimage to Holy Land
Z 702 (Hi) Eponymous account of place name
Z 704 (Bm) Eponymous account of island [valley].

B 217.2 Animal languages learned from eating plant
D 1266.1 Magic writings (gramerye, runes)
D 1301 Magic object teaches animal languages
D 1815 Magic knowledge of strange tongues [language]
D 1815.2 Magic knowledge of language of animals
F 645 Marvelously wise man [woman].
F 695.3.1 Miraculous ability to learn to read and to write foreign language in short time
F 883 Extraordinary writings (book, letter)
H 502 Test of learning

D 1162.1 Magic lamp

F 377.1 Supernatural lapse of time in paradise

F 591 Person who never laughs
M 151.7 Heroine will not laugh till arrival of destined hero.
M 304 Prophecy from enigmatical laugh
N 456 Enigmatical smile (laugh) reveals secret knowledge

Z 157 Olive [palm] branch symbol of peace [victory]

B 270 Animals in legal relations
B 270.1 Lawsuit between animals [Th.: Lawsuit between the owl and kite]
B 272.1 Lawsuit against animals
J 1151 Testimony of witness cleverly discredited
J 1190 Cleverness in the law court – miscellaneous
J 1930 Absurd disregard of natural laws
M 200 Bargains and promises
P 510 Law courts
P 522 Laws
P 523 Bringing suit in law courts
P 541 Law-making
P 548 Miscellaneous legal customs [problems]
P 614 (Bm) Bribes
T 5 (Bm) Court of love.

J 2314 Layman made to believe that he is a monk

Q 321 Laziness punished
W 111.5 Other lazy persons

A 475.0.1 Cupid with arrows of lead and gold

B 151.1.1 Horses determine road to be taken
F 369.7 Fairies lead travelers astray
H 217.1 Decision of victory by single combat between army leaders
H 1567 Test of leadership
P 19.0.1 (Li) King Arthur as leader of outstanding chivalric society (Round Table)

F 811 Extraordinary tree
F 811.2.2 Tree with leaves of jewels
F 811.2.3 Tree with gigantic leaves

D 1738 Magic arts studied
D 1812.3 Means of learning future
F 645 Marvelously wise man [woman].
H 502 Test of learning
H 502.1 Test of religious learning
J 120 Wisdom learned from children
J 1730.1 Hero does not learn his name until after first [particular] adventure.
K 3.4 Wise man [ clerical trickster] disguised as monk beats learned heretic [clerics] in debate
N 440 Valuable secrets learned
P 426 Clergy
P 427 Druid (poet, learned man)
T 4 Person wants to learn art of love
T 617.2 Hero learns his name at time of first [particular] adventure.

F 843 Extraordinary rope
T 59 (Bm) Love tokens

F 302.6 Fairy mistress leaves man when he breaks tabu
K 1552 Ruse to catch adulteress – husband pretends to leave; others remain close by.
M 161.7 (Bm) Vow not to leave certain place until foe is defeated
S 139.2.2.11.2 (Bm) Humiliation of corpse: body of dead hero left in field for wild beasts to eat.
T 72 Woman won and then scorned
T 230 Faithlessness in marriage [love]

F 812.7 Boards of wood from certain forest endure forever

Q 243 Incontinence punished – miscellaneous
T 411.1 (Lecherous) [Unnatural] father [wants to marry his daughter]
V 465 Clerical vices.

B 15.6 Animal with unusual legs or feet
F 517.0.2 Long-legged people
F 531.1.3 Feet (legs) [and arms] of giant
F 548 Remarkable legs
L 461 Stag scorns his legs but is proud of his horns
N 397 Accidental self-injury
Q 451.0.1 Hands and feet cut off as punishment

P 527 (Li) Problems of inheritance (legacy)

P 524 Legal security
P 527 (Li) Problems of inheritance (legacy)
P 548 Miscellaneous legal customs [problems]

P 14.15.2 Court messenger

F 883 Extraordinary writings (book, letter)
H 810 Riddles based on the Bible or legend

H 71 Marks of royalty
P 550.1.2 (Li) Defense of legitimate rights by war
T 642 Test of legitimacy of children: exposure to asps [lions]

B 14 Other hybrid animals
B 15.7.10 Animal unusual as to skin
B 268 Animal soldiers [trained for combat or battle]
B 571.3 Animals fight together with their master.
B 731 Fanciful color of animal
G 302.3.3.2.5 Devil in form of lion [leopard]
Z 235 Hero with extraordinary animal companion

D 1003 Magic blood – human
D 1500.1.7.3 Magic healing blood
D 1502.4.2.1 Blood of children (innocent maidens) as cure for leprosy
D 2161.1.1 Magic cure of leprosy
F 872.3 Bath of blood
F 955 Miraculous cure for leprosy
F 955.1 Blood (-bath) as cure for leprosy
K 1818.1 Disguise as leper
P 162 Lepers
Q 331 Pride punished
Q 499.2.1 Humiliating death as punishment for adultery.
Q 551.6.0.1 Punishment: man stricken with leprosy

B 291.1.0.1 Bird as letter carrier
D 1266.1 Magic writings (gramerye, runes)
D 1355.0.1 Magic spear [bearing love letter] produces love-sickness
F 883 Extraordinary writings (book, letter)
G 303.16.2.3 Devil’s power avoided by blessing [blessed or sacred writing].
H 11 Recognition through story-telling.
H 82 Identifying tokens sent with messenger
K 1851 Substituted letter
K 1851.0.1 (Bm) Forged letter
K 1851.2 (Bm) “False” letters with false news of king’s death
K 1872.3 Love letter hidden in apple [scarf, roses]
P 14.15.2 Court messenger
P 556 Challenge to battle
T 41 Communication of lovers
T 57 Declaration of love
T 69 Wooing – miscellaneous motifs
V 151 Sacred writings.
V 211.10 Letter (message) of Christ

D 906 Magic wind
D 1520.28 Magic transportation in whirlwind.
D 2135.0.1 Levitation

P 551 Army
P 559 (Li) Peace: making and conditions of peace (ransom, reparations, submission)

F 300 Marriage or liaison with fairy

L 451.3 Wolf prefers liberty and hunger to dog’s servitude and plenty

F 451.5.1.7 Dwarfs serve mortals
F 531.5.10 Giant as servant to man
H 1224 Quest to distant king for military aid
P 50 Noblemen (knights) [rules of chivalry]
P 50.0.1 King and vassals: obligations of vassals to king [Feudality: mutual relationship between king and vassals]
R 74.4 (Tu) Defeated king [nobleman, knight] becomes conqueror’s vassal

B 751.4 The lion blows first life into its cubs three days after their birth
E 1 Person comes to life
E 90 Tree of life
E 761.3 Life token: tree (flower) fades
E 761.7.4 Life token- light goes out
F 560 Unusual manner of life
F 569 Unusual manner of life – miscellaneous
H 11.1 Recognition by telling life history
H 11.1.2 Recognition: life story painted on wall
J 217.0.1 Unsatisfactory life preferred to death [danger of death]
J 217.0.2 (G) Life preferred to death
J 494 Choice: death and revenge preferred to life
K 2213.3 Faithless wife plots with paramour against husband’s life
M 234 Life spared in return for life-long service [material compensation, peace treaty]
M 234.3 Life bought for gold
M 268 Marriage promised to save life
M 321 Prophecy: long life
M 369.2 Prophecies concerning love and marriage
N 650 Life saved by accident.
N 659 Life saved by accident – miscellaneous
P 324.3 Guests’ life inviolable
Q 151 Life spared as reward
T 200 Married life
U 280 (Hi) The nature of life – miscellaneous

D 1266.2 Magic picture.
D 1615 Magic singing object.
D 1620 Magic automata
D 1620.2 Automatic statue of animal
F 824.2 Extraordinarily painted shield
F 855.2 Statues animated by water or wind
F 990 Inanimate objects act as if living

F 624 Mighty lifter
F 624.2.0.1 Strong man throws enormous stone
H 1562.2 Test of strength: lifting stone

D 1162 Magic light
D 1162.1 Magic lamp
D 1478 Magic object provides light
D 1601.7 Lamp (fire) lights itself.
D 1645.2 Incandescent cup
D 1682 Magic jewel which outweighs many heavy objects in the scale
E 742 Soul as light
E 761.7.4 Life token – light goes out
F 960.2.4 Great light appears on night [day] of holy [pious] man’s death
F 960.3 Extraordinary nature phenomena during furious battle
F 965 Premature darkness.
F 969.3 Marvelous light
H 614 Explanation of enigmatic phenomenon
K 1888 Illusory light
N 270 Crime inevitably comes to light
F 969.3 Marvelous light

F 960 Extraordinary nature phenomena – elements and weather
F 968 Extraordinary thunder and lightning
G 303.17.2.5 Devil retreats into hell amid thunder and lightning

F 577 Persons identical in appearance.

B 15 Animals with unusual limbs or members
F 988 Extraordinary limbs of animal
Q 429 Capital punishment – miscellaneous

D 950.7 Magic lime tree
F 162.3.3 Tree in otherworld in perpetual fruit [foliation].
F 811 Extraordinary tree

C 761.1 Tabu: remaining on journey too long.
D 1761.0.2 Limited number of wishes granted
H 1245.1 (Bm) Quest to be accomplished within one year
T 219 (Bm) Wife will no longer love husband if he is gone more than one year.
Z 71.12 Formulistic number: forty [Forty days’ limit]
Z 72.0.1 (Bm) Year time limit on quest

B 11.1 Chimera. [Combination of Lion, dragon and goat]
B 11.6.8.1 Dragon flies away with lion
B 11.11.6 Dragon fight in order to free lion
B 11.11.11 (Bm) Dragon fights lion [panther]
B 121.6 Lion with magic wisdom
B 240.4 Lion as king of animals
B 274 Animal as judge
B 301.8 Faithful lion follows man who saved him.
B 360 Animals grateful for rescue from peril of death
B 371.1 Lion spared mouse: mouse grateful
B 381 Thorn removed from lion’s paw (Androcles and the Lion)
B 431.2 Helpful lion
B 557 Unusual animal as riding horse
B 557.5 Person carried by lion [panther]
B 576 Animal as guard.
B 576.1 Animal as guard of person or house.
B 731.15 (Bm) White lion
B 751.4 The lion blows first life into its cubs three days after their birth
B 771 Wild animal miraculously tamed
B 847 Lion placed in city to prevent entrance
B 871.2.5 Giant lion
D 1620.2.4 Automatic statue of lion
F 611.2.1 Strong hero suckled by animal
F 628.1.1 Strong man kills lion with own hands
F 821.1.3 Dress of raw fur
H 335.3 Suitor task: killing ferocious animal
H 1161 Task: killing ferocious beast.
H 1561.13 (G) Test of valor: fight with ferocious animals
J 811.1.1 Lion divides the booty
J 1454 The lion and the statue [painting]
J 1758.1 Tiger [lion] mistaken for goat
K 1121 Wolf (lion) approaches too near to horse: kicked in face
K 2061.4 Wolf [lion, fox] tries to entice goat [pigeon] down from high place [out of stable]
Q 415.4 Punishment: being fed to lions (wild beasts)
T 563.3 Child born with figure of serpent [lion] on his body
T 642 Test of legitimacy of children: exposure to asps [lions]
U 37 Wolf as commander orders all booty divided, but keeps his own [Lion keeps all booty to himself]
W 121.2.1 Ass insults dying lion [Animals insult dying lion, wolf]

S 160 Mutilations
S 166.5 Mutilation: chin and lips cut off.

J 1440 Repartee – miscellaneous
J 2450 Literal fool.
J 2460 Literal obedience
J 2470 Metaphors literally interpreted
K 236 Literal payment of debt (not real)
K 2312 Oath literally obeyed

F 711.2.6 (Tu) Congealed Sea
H 105.2 Tongue [liver] as proof that man [woman] has been murdered.
K 512.2 Compassionate executioner: substituted heart [liver].

E 367 Return from dead to preach repentance
E 422 Living corpse.
E 470 Intimate relations of dead and living
E 542 Dead man touches living
F 990 Inanimate objects act as if living
F 1096 Person lives on after being cut through by sword
F 1096.2 Person lives on with intestines exposed
Q 503 Wandering after death as punishment.

B 876.2 Giant crustacean
G 308.2 Water-monster

A 671.0.1.1 Other locations for hell
F 130 Location of otherworld
F 771.3 Extraordinary location of castle
H 1257 Quest for the location of paradise

D 2088 Locks opened by magic
R 121.6.2 Locks marvelously open for person

D 1664 Summer and winter garden
F 756.2 Plain that is earthly paradise [locus amoenus]

F 806.1 Lodestone draws ship to it

F 451.2.3.1 Long-bearded dwarf
F 511.2 Person unusual as to his ears
F 513.1 Person unusual as to his teeth
F 517 Person unusual as to his legs
F 517.0.2 Long-legged people
F 531.1.5 Breasts of giantess [wild woman]
F 531.1.6.2.1 Giants (giantesses) [wild-woman] with long teeth.
F 542.1 Long ears
F 544.3.5 Remarkably long teeth.
F 548 Remarkable legs
F 559.2 Long navel.
F 1099.11 (Li) Unnaturally long sleep
H 317 Long term of service imposed on suitor

B 841 Long-lived animals.
D 1857 Magic longevity.

D 1374.1 Magic music causes longing
F 374 Longing in fairyland to visit home.
T 294 Husband (wife) of supernatural being longs for old home and visits relatives.

C 31.1 Tabu: Looking at supernatural wife
C 312 Tabu: man looking at woman
H 1554.1 Test of curiosity: mouse in the jug

D 1163 Magic mirror
D 1323.1 Magic clairvoyant mirror
D 1652 Inexhaustible object.
H 411.15 Magic mirror as chastity index

B 240.3 Wild man as king of animals.
D 2197 Magic dominance over animals
K 1810.1.3 Taking king’s place by changing dresses
K 2247 Treacherous lord [vassal]
P 12.2.1 Tyrannical king [lord]
P 90 Royalty and nobility – miscellaneous

H 218.1 Judicial combat interrupted by friends of loser
H 1561.2.0.1 (Bm) Loser of single combat will become winner’s servant [subject]

A 1331 Paradise lost
C 111 Tabu: loss of chastity
C 932 Loss of wife (husband) for breaking tabu.
C 939.5 (Bm) Loss of kingdom as punishment for breaking tabu
C 943.2 Loss of one eye for breaking tabu
D 860 Loss of magic object
D 860.0.1 Death to follow loss of magic object
D 1741 Magic powers lost
D 1749 Loss of magic power – miscellaneous
D 2004.3.1 Forgetfulness by drinking
D 2025.0.1 Magic (loss and) recovery of speech
E 752 Lost souls
H 1335 Quest for lost knight
H 1385 Quest for lost person.
H 1385.8 Quest for lost brother(s)
H 1385.13 (Bm) Quest for lost friend
H 1385.15 (Bm) Quest for lost mother
H 1385.16 (Bm) Quest for abducted [lost] foster son.
H 1387 (G) Quest for lost animal (horse, dog)
J 1545.10 (Tu) Small cause for complaint – One-eyed groom rebukes his bride for loss of virginity
K 1843.1 Bride has maid sleep in husband’s bed to conceal pregnancy [lost virginity].
M 356.1.1 Prophecy: loss of battle (combat)
N 771 King (prince) (lost) on hunt has adventures
Q 595 Loss or destruction of property as punishment

N 126 Lots cast to determine luck or fate

D 1419.2 Magic object paralyses.
D 1620.2 Automatic statue of animal
F 556 Remarkable voice
F 688 Man with marvelous voice
F 688.3 Voice heard over whole land
F 966 Voices from heaven (or from the air)
F 1051.2 Miraculously loud noise of mourning for hero

A 188 Gods and goddesses in love with men
A 475 God of love
A 475.1 Goddess of love
C 453 Tabu: boasting of love-conquest
D 856 Magic object acquired by gaining love of owner
D 1355.0.1 Magic spear [bearing love letter] produces love-sickness
D 1355.2 Magic love-philtre
D 1355.3 Love charm
D 1355.4 Ring produces love
D 1866 Other means of beautification
D 1900 Love induced by magic
D 1905 Means of inducing love
F 420.6.1.2 Water-spirit offers gift to mortal to win love
F 451.5.18 Dwarf loves mortal girl
F 950.10 (Bm) Love cures illness
F 1041.1.1 Death from broken heart
F 1041.1.5.4 Death from joy of kiss [love making]
H 82.3 Tokens between lovers
H 135.0.1 (Bm) Love messages on slips of wood sent downstream.
H 315.2 Suitor contest: bride offered to suitor giving the token of the greater love
H 421 Tests for true lover
H 467 Other tests of wife’s love or faithfulness
H 1556.4 Fidelity in love tested
K 1362 Innocent girl sells her “love” and later receives it back
K 1517.10 Paramour having love tryst is met by husband. Pretends he had come because of the wife’s sickness
K 1872.3 Love letter hidden in apple [scarf, roses]
M 149 Vows concerning sex – miscellaneous
M 369.2 Prophecies concerning love and marriage
P 52.2 (Li) Knight in service of a lady
P 231.3 Mother-love
P 274.1 Love between foster sister and foster brother
Q 58 (Bm) Obedience [in love-service] rewarded
Q 256 Punishment for clandestine lover of princess [for princess and her clandestine lover]
R 161.1 Lover rescues his lady from abductor.
T 0 Love
T 2 The relative pleasures of love
T 3 Omens in love affairs
T 4 Person wants to learn art of love
T 5 (Bm) Court of love.
T 10 Falling in love
T 11 Falling in love with person never seen
T 11.1 Love from mere mention or description
T 11.2 Love through sight of picture
T 11.3 Love through dream
T 13 Woman falls in love as result of husband’s praise of her (a) suitor
T 15 Love at first sight
T 21 Mutual love through accidental drinking of love philtre
T 23 (Bm) Childhood sweethearts
T 24 The symptoms of love
T 24.1 Love-sickness
T 24.2 Swooning for love
T 24.2.1 Fainting away for love (or sexual desire)
T 24.3 Madness from love
T 24.5 Boy [girl] turns red and white from love
T 24.6 Lover refuses food and drink
T 26 Attention distracted by sight of (remembering) beloved [because of love]
T 26.1 Finger cut because of absorption in the charms of beloved
T 28 (Princess) Falling in love with man disguised as woman
T 29 Falling in love – miscellaneous
T 35 Lovers’ rendezvous
T 35.5 Lover goes to see his beloved in her husband’s (or her father’s) house, defiant of the danger
T 41 Communication of lovers
T 55.1 Princess declares her love for lowly hero
T 57 Declaration of love
T 59 (Bm) Love tokens
T 59.1 (Bm) Rings as love tokens
T 59.2 (Bm) Sleeve as love token.
T 61.4.5 Betrothal by gold ring
T 61.5.2 Children ten [five] and twelve [five] years old betroth themselves
T 68 Princess offered as prize
T 71 Woman scorned in love
T 71.2 Woman avenges scorned love
T 75.2.1 Rejected suitors’ revenge
T 75.3 Unrequited love expressed in song (poem)
T 80 Tragic love
T 81 Death from love
T 81.2 Death from unrequited love
T 81.3 Girl [wife] falls dead on lover’s [husband’s] body
T 84 Lovers treacherously separated
T 89 Tragic love – miscellaneous motifs
T 91 Unequals in love
T 91.3 Love of mortal and supernatural person
T 91.6 Noble and lowly in love
T 91.6.2 King (prince) in love with a lowly girl
T 91.6.4.1.1 Princess falls in love with knight [Knight falls in love with princess]
T 91.7 Unequals in love – miscellaneous
T 92 Rivals in love
T 92.1 The triangle plot and its solutions
T 92.1.1 Young wife of old man loves (is loved by) younger man
T 93.1 Disappointed lover becomes wild man in the woods.
T 95.0.3 Man loves sister [widow] of warrior he has slain
T 99 Love – additional motifs
T 210 Faithfulness in marriage
T 210.1 Faithful wife
T 215.4 Wife puts out one of her eyes to show sympathy with her husband. He has lost an eye in a tournament and is ashamed to return to her – She shows that it makes no difference to her love
T 230 Faithlessness in marriage [love]
T 400 Illicit sexual relations
T 463 Homosexual love (male)
T 470 Illicit sexual relations – miscellaneous motifs
V 331.5 Conversion to Christianity through love
X 700 Humor concerning sex
Z 137 (Li) Love personified: “Frau Minne”

D 1355.2 Magic love-philtre
K 945 Woman tricked into giving poison to her husband: thinks it a love-philtre
T 21 Mutual love through accidental drinking of love philtre

B 81.2.2 Mermaids tear their mortal lovers to pieces [kill their mortal lovers]
D 641.1 Lover as bird visits mistress
D 868.2 (Bm) Magic ring must be returned by unfaithful lover.
E 631.0.1 Twining branches grow from graves of lovers
F 30 Fairy lover
F 301 Fairy lover [husband].
F 302 Fairy mistress
F 1041.1.2 Death from grief for death of lover or relative
F 1041.1.2.1 Lover dies beside dying [dead] sweetheart
F 1041.1.2.2.1 Woman swoons and is near death at hearing of husband’s or lover’s death
H 81 Clandestine lover recognized by token.
H 81.3 Clandestine visit of lover to queen betrayed by token
H 82.3 Tokens between lovers
H 421 Tests for true lover
J 1146 Detection by strewing ashes (sand) [flour]: lover leaves footprint.
K 1087.1 Message falsified [brings] (to bring) about death of lovers
K 1210 Humiliated or baffled lovers
K 1218 Importunate lovers led astray
K 1218.9.1 Importunate lover is given a rendezvous. Obscene tricks played on him
K 1227 Lover put off by deceptive respite
K 1233 (Rotunda) Lover humiliated by his impotence
K 1317.7 Woman mistakes passer-by for lover. Substitution in the dark
K 1514 Adulteress gets rid of husband while she entertains lover
K 1514.4 Returning husband beaten by servants, mistaken for the lover whom he has told them to beat
K 1514.17 Adulteress together with lover while husband sleeps
K 1514.18 Adulteress makes excuse to go and attend to bodily needs: meets lover
K 1516.10 Wife has her lover in the bathing tub, As husband wants to look at him he squirts bathing water in his eyes allowing the lover to escape unseen
K 1521.2.1 Lover escapes behind the sheet which wife holds up to show her husband
K 1524 Adulteress falls in mud at lover’s door
K 1534 Queen deceives king by unfriendly conversation with lover.
K 1534.1 Queen deceives king by telling him her lover is her enemy.
K 1551 Husband returns home secretly and spies on adulteress and paramour
K 1558.1 Husband castrates paramour
K 1565 Blades (broken glass) to wound and detect wife’s lover
K 1580 Other deceits connected with adultery
K 1581.4 Lover’s gift regained: accidental discovery of identity. The lover ignorant of the identity of the husband tells him of his experience with the wife. The husband persuades the lover to lead him to the scene where the wife is compelled to restore all but a small part of the money
K 1584 Innocent confessor duped into being go-between for adulteress and lover
K 1818.3.2 Lover approaches mistress disguised as fool
K 1864.2 (Bm) False report of death to discourage romance
M 149.1 Lovers vow to marry only each other
N 318 Accidental separation of lovers
N 343 Lover kills self believing his mistress dead. She has been frightened away by a lion (Pyramus and Thisbe)
N 343.4 Lover commits suicide on finding beloved dead
N 352 Bird carries off ring which lover has taken from sleeping mistress’s finger. He searches for the ring and becomes separated from her
N 386 Lover’s wound breaks while he is in bed with mistress. He bleeds to death
N 737 Accidental reunion of lovers
N 737.1 (Bm) Accidental encounter leads to eventual reuniting of lovers
P 19.2.1 King [prince] abducts woman to be his paramour.
Q 256 Punishment for clandestine lover of princess [for princess and her clandestine lover]
Q 411.0.1.2 Man (fairy) kills wife’s lover
R 12.4 Girl enticed into boat and abducted [by lover]
R 161 Lover [unwelcome suitor] rescues his lady
R 161.1 Lover rescues his lady from abductor.
R 161.4 Lover rescues his lady from the gallows [stake]
R 225.2 Lovers elope to prevent girl’s marriage to undesired fiancé
R 312.1 Forest as refuge for eloping lovers
R 315.1 Cave as eloping lovers’ refuge.
T 0 Love
T 11.3.1 Lovers meet in their dreams
T 22 Predestined lovers
T 22.4 Lovers fated to marry each other born at same time
T 24.6 Lover refuses food and drink
T 30 Lovers’ meeting
T 31 Lovers’ meeting: hero in service of [given as playmate to] heroine
T 31.1 Lovers’ meeting: Hero in service of lady’s father
T 32.1 Lovers’ meeting: hero in heroine’s father’s [husband’s] prison from which she helps him to escape
T 34 Lovers meet at social gathering
T 35 Lovers’ rendezvous
T 35.1 Fountain as lovers’ rendezvous.
T 35.2 Pavilion as lover’s rendezvous
T 35.5 Lover goes to see his beloved in her husband’s (or her father’s) house, defiant of the danger
T 36 Girl sleeps in garden to meet lover. Discovered next morning and married
T 41 Communication of lovers
T 41.1 Communication of lovers through hole in wall
T 41.3 Lover’s signal
T 42 Conversation of lovers
T 61.2 (Bm) Parting lovers pledge not to marry for seven years [swear faithfulness]
T 70 Scorned lover [suitors]
T 81.2.1 Scorned lover kills self
T 81.2.1.1 Scorned lover (woman) threatens to kill self
T 81.3 Girl [wife] falls dead on lover’s [husband’s] body
T 81.5 Sick lover dies from exertion of embracing beloved
T 81.6 Girl kills herself after lover’s death suicide by drowning
T 84 Lovers treacherously separated
T 85 Woman mourns [supposedly] dead lover
T 85.4 Lover’s body [lover’s bones] kept (embalmed) for years by grieving mistress
T 86 Lovers buried in same grave [coffin]
T 89.2 Woman [man] sacrifices herself [himself] to save beloved
T 89.3 (Bm) Faithless lover
T 91 Unequals in love
T 92.7 Rival lovers do battle for girl
T 92.10 Rival in love killed
T 93 Fate of disappointed lover
T 93.1 Disappointed lover becomes wild man in the woods.
T 93.3 Disappointed lover kills [attempts to kill] self
T 96 Lovers reunited after many adventures
T 104.1 Rejected suitor wages war
T 211.4.2 Husband’s [lover’s] corpse kept after death.
T 243 Fight between husband and lover for kingdom and wife
T 323 Escape from undesired lover by strategy
T 475 Unknown (clandestine) paramour
T 484 Maidservant given to lover’s companion as bed-partner
Z 175.2 Lover’s assignation by symbolic [secret] messages

K 2200 Villains and traitors.
L 400 Pride brought low
L 430 Arrogance repaid
U 121 Like parent, like child

J 950 Presumption of the lowly
L 161 Lowly hero marries princess
L 162 Lowly heroine marries prince (king, [count])
L 165 Lowly boy [man] becomes king
T 55.1 Princess declares her love for lowly hero
T 91.6 Noble and lowly in love
T 91.6.2 King (prince) in love with a lowly girl
T 91.7 Unequals in love – miscellaneous
T 121 Unequal marriage
T 121.3 Princess marries courtier

H 492 Test of faithfulness of husband and wife.
H 1550 Tests of character
H 1556 Tests of fidelity [loyalty]
H 1556.4 Fidelity in love tested
H 1557 Tests of obedience
M 100.0.1 (Li) Oath of allegiance
M 150 Other vows and oaths
N 839.1.1 (Bm) Faithful steward [marshal] as foster father
P 50.0.1 King and vassals: obligations of vassals to king [Feudality: mutual relationship between king and vassals]
P 110.0.1 (Bm) Faithful steward [knight] as regent
P 205 Refusal to fight relatives
P 361 Faithful servant [vassal]
Q 72 Loyalty rewarded
Q 72.1 Reward for loyalty to king
Q 72.2 (Bm) Loyalty of sworn brothers rewarded [ when one becomes king]
V 301.1 (Li) The high-minded, noble heathen
W 34 Loyalty
W 34.2 Loyal friends refuse to fight against disgraced comrade

D 1561.1 Magic object brings luck.
D 1561.1.2 Magic ring brings good luck.
D 1561.1.7 Magic stone brings good luck.
M 302.4 Horoscope taken by means of stars
N 6 Luck in gambling
N 100 Nature of luck and fate
N 111 Fortuna
N 118 Issues left to fate (luck).
N 120 Determination of luck or fate
N 126 Lots cast to determine luck or fate
N 130 Changing of luck or fate
N 131 Acts performed for changing luck
N 131.4 Luck changing after change of name
N 134.1 Person brings bad luck
N 170 The capriciousness of luck
N 203 Lucky person.
N 250 Persistent bad luck
N 699 Other lucky accidents
Z 134 Fortune personified

A 124 Luminous god
D 1645 Self-luminous objects.
D 1645.1 Incandescent jewel
D 1645.3 Magic castle shines from afar.
E 421.3 Luminous [fiery] ghosts
F 162.0.1.2 (Luminous) precious stones in otherworld (dwelling)
F 574 Luminous [fiery] person
F 574.2 Man with luminous arms
F 826 Extraordinary jewels

F 302.3.1 Fairy entices man to fairyland
G 303.3.1.12 Devil in form of woman
G 303.9.4 The devil as a tempter
G 303.12.6 Devil in form of woman woos man
K 737.1 Dupe lured into hole and entrance closed.
K 789 (Bm) Chess game to lure man into captivity.
K 811 Victim lured into house and killed

T 317.2 Repression of lust through prayer

J 267 Choice between flattering lies and unflattering truths
Q 263 Lying (perjury) punished
W 24 Man speaks no evil [lie]
X 1156 Lie: other unusual methods of catching fish
X 1788 Lie: the realistic painting