- (Threat of) bodily mutilation
- Accidental death
- Admission of trick framed as a joke
- Adoption
- Adultery
- Age versus youth
- Animal tale
- Arranged marriage
- Assassination
- Bathing
- Beating
- Beheading
- Biblical narrative
- Bird
- Blindness
- Blood
- Boar
- Bodily transformation
- Body fluids
- Cannibalism
- Caves and underground spaces
- Chastity
- Childbirth
- Children
- Christianity
- Clothes
- Coerced Marriage
- Coerced sex
- Concealed lover
- Court of law
- Cross dressing
- Cross dressing: man in women’s clothes
- Cross dressing: woman in men’s clothes
- Death
- Death of husband
- Death of lover
- Death of son
- Debt
- Deceitful advisor
- Deceitful lover
- Deceitful old man
- Deceitful old woman
- Deceitful son
- Deceitful woman
- Deception
- Deception of would-be lover
- Disability
- Disguise
- Disposal of corpse
- Dog
- Dreams
- Dwarf
- Dynastic marriage
- Eagle
- Elephant
- Evidence
- Failed/rejected seduction
- False evidence of unchastity/criminality
- False evidence of virtue
- Familial duty
- Familial relationships
- Father/daughter relationships
- Father/son relationships
- Fish
- Food and drink
- Foolish old man
- Fox
- Fratricide
- Friendship
- Gender play
- Genitalia
- Grief
- Gullible (would-be) lover
- Gullible husband
- Homosexuality
- Humiliation
- Humour
- Hunchback
- Identity object
- Illegitimacy
- Illness
- Impossible conditions
- Impotence anxiety
- Imprisonment
- Islam
- Islamophobia
- Jealous husband
- Jealousy
- Judgement
- Lecherous old man
- Lesson: flattery
- Lesson: greed
- Lesson: haste
- Lesson: loyalty
- Lesson: women’s cleverness and deceit
- Lion
- Love (or lust) at first sight
- Magic
- Magical beings (spirits, demons, djinn, witches)
- Magic object
- Magic spell
- Magpie
- Man tricked/coerced into sex
- Marriage
- Medicine
- Member of Clergy
- Military conflict
- Mistaken or concealed identity
- Money in exchange for promise of sex
- Monkey
- Mother/daughter relationships
- Mother/son relationships
- Multiple lovers
- Murder
- Nature tale: tree
- Necklace
- Old man
- Old woman
- Old woman as go-between
- Orchard
- Orientalised setting
- Overheard secret
- Parrot
- Patricide
- Person concealed within a chest
- Poison
- Pregnancy
- Pride
- Prohibtions/taboos
- Punishment for theft
- Rabbit
- Rape
- Religion
- Religious conflict
- Religious conversion
- Remorse
- Revenge
- Riches
- Riding/carried by an animal
- Ring
- Rooster
- Serpent
- Setting: exotic/orientalised
- Setting: nature
- Sex change
- Sheep
- Slander: wife falsely accused
- Suicide
- Swan
- Sword
- Talking bird
- Theft
- Unjust execution
- Violence
- Violent punishment
- Weasel
- Wicked stepmother/mother-in-law
- Window
- Wise child
- Wise old man
- Wise old woman
- Wolf
- Woman in 'male' role
- Woman locked up/kept indoors
- Woman tricked/coerced into sex
- Women committing violence