The Exile: On the false charges, Maria and her family have to flee.
Fallen Princess: After their exile, the sisters Maria and Vasilissia.
Femme Fatale: Ljuba uses magic and sex to try to work herself into power.
Forced Transformation: Finist finds that a wolf really is a transformed man. His girlfriend, angry with him, hadn't really expected it to work.
Love Potion: Ljuba creates these. She can even put them in candles.
Magic Is Evil: Danilo and many others are convinced of this. Finist distinguishes between sorcery, which is, and magic, which need not be.
Malicious Slander: A man slanders Maria's father to the prince, which is why she and her family have to flee.
Nice to the Waiter: Ljuba is quite frustrated at how Finist is so concerned with the welfare of the peasants and other commoners.
The Pardon: After Finist reveals the falsity of the charges, Danilo is pardoned.
Oblivious to Love: Ljuba intends to use Finist for her ambitions. She insists on this to herself whenever unpleasant thoughts, such as it hurts not to be trusted by him, occur.
Rags to Royalty: Maria is reduced to a peasant's life before gaining Finist's love.
