The constellation
K2338 Wife, to drive away parasite priest, tells him husband has gone to get drunk and will kill him with rice mortar on his return. He leaves in haste
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- Deception by frightening · K2320 entry
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- Corpse set up to frighten people · K2321 entry
- The three hunchback brothers drowned. A drunken man is employed, by the woman who has accidently slain three hunchback brothers, to throw one into the river. He does so. Then she puts another out and finally the third. The man thinks they keep coming to life. Finally he sees the woman's hunchback husband and drowns him · K2322 entry
- The cowardly duelers. In the war between the wild and the domestic animals, the cat raises her tail; the wild animals think that it is a gun and flee · K2323 entry
- Hiding from the strange animal. A cat shrieks and the frightened bear falls out of the tree and hurts himself · K2324 entry
- Devil frightened by threatening to bring mother-in-law · K2325 entry
- Wolf-captor scared by fiddle-playing of captive ram, who escapes · K2327 entry
- Parson is tricked into giving up his room. Is told there is a snake in it · K2335 entry
- Tiger frightened away from man's tree refuge by man's stick and rope · K2336 entry
- Ogre frightened at rustling. Man sets juniper afire · K2345 entry
- Wooden image frightens away invaders · K2346 entry