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• Gods forced by mortals to take refuge underground. A189.13
• Origin of the Fir Bolg ("Men of the Sacks"); so-called because as slaves they were forced to carry earth in sacks (builg). A1657.2
• Magic object acquired through trickery: child forced to cry till object is given. D835
• Thief forced to vomit up stolen magic object. D884
• Wolf is forced by saint to be substitute for eaten calf. D2156.8
• Tools sharpened through power of saint. Slaves forced to hew down yew tree with dull tools: hands bleed. (Cf. H1110, P170.) D2199.2
• Revenant forced away by shooting. E439.1
• Revenant forced away by fire. E439.5
• Wild hunt forced to depart. E501.17.8
• Ghosts forced to labor. E558
• Dwarf otherwise caught and thus forced to procure what hero demands. F451.3.2.1.2
• Dwarfs curse weapons and treasures which they are forced to give (or which the receiver does not appreciate). F451.5.2.13
• Dwarfs forced to flee by deity. F451.9.1.14
• Knockers as ghosts of Jews who crucified Christ and who were forced to work Cornish tin mines as punishment. F456.1.1.1
• Soldiers fight so closely river is forced from bed. F1084.3
• Man forced to eat dead father's heart goes mad. G91.1
• Man forced to eat dead father's heart struck dumb. G91.1.1
• Person places three notched elder twigs under bowl. Witch is forced to remove them, thus revealing herself. G257.6
• Witch forced to divulge her secret powers. G275.5
• Devil becomes an angel. Forced by monk, devil sings a hymn and becomes a white angel as he was before the sin. G303.8.1.2.1
• Secrets forced from overpowered monster. (Cf. G515.) G510.2
• Birds having learned their possible dangers are forced from nest by mother. J65
• The blacksmith's and the horse-trader's dreams. They are forced to sleep together because of lack of room. The blacksmith tells the horsetrader that he often dreams that he is striking the bellows and that he may accidently strike him in the night. The horsetrader retaliates by dreaming that he is riding a horse and drives the spurs into the blacksmith. J1622
• Cheater is forced to eat excrements. Gentleman agrees to exchange his good horse for the peasant's jade, provided the peasant will eat its excrements. The peasant finds no difficulty in the task, whereas the gentleman, put to the same condition when he wants to get back his horse, finds it impossible. K198
• In duel with long poles the ogre is forced into the pig-sty. K785
• King who demands milk from all hornless cows forced to accept bogstuff milked from wooden cows: he dies. K839.4
• Dupe forced on to thin ice: drowns himself. K893
• Hero, who has eloped with affianced wife of king, induced to return to court and treacherously slain during enforced absence of his sureties at drinking bouts. K929.8
• Hercules spins for his beloved. Is forced to dress as woman and discharge womanly duties including spinning. K1214
• Importunate lover (priest) is forced to hide in chest. Husband takes the chest to the waiting congregation. Clever priest comes out enacting the resurrection of Lazarus. K1218.1.4
• Four importunate lovers are forced to hide in four-compartmented chest which is sold. K1218.1.4.1
• Would-be poisoner forced to drink poisoned cup. K1613.0.1
• Dwarf himself falls in love with girl he has seduced by magic love, and loses her as he is forced to remove his magic. K1672
• False Paradise. (The Old Man of the Mountain.) Potion is given to dupes who are led into what they believe is Paradise. They are then forced to rob and kill to regain admittance through death. K1889.3
• Sham wise man claims to find stolen goods by incantation. He has really forced thieves to show them to him. K1956.1.1
• Saint, when forced to return to his monastery after swearing not to "come with his face before him," comes walking backwards. K2312.2
• Queen forced to become a courtesan. L410.7
• Forced prophecies are unfavorable. M340.2
• Wager: woman can be forced to give alms. Trickster announces that only those who have deceived their husbands are exempt. N67
• Hospitality enforced on hero keeps him overlong from home; meantime wife abducted. N391.0.1
• Calumniated wife is forced to flee. (Cf. K2210.) Reunited by chance after many years at Emperor's court. N741.3.1
• King himself works at brick building so that subjects cannot complain of enforced labor. P15.7
• Subjects drive their ruler away after he has made them do forced labor. P15.8
• Mother dislikes her children in forced marriage. P230.2
• Newcomers forced to pass the night with ruling princess. Given sleeping potion. Goods confiscated for failure to consummate marriage. P616
• Ravisher is forced to marry girl and then is executed. Q244.0.1
• Freemasons forced to dance till they sweat blood. Q388.1
• Murderess forced to leap from cliff. (Cf. Q211.) Q417.1
• Adulteress forced to eat out of lover's skull. Q478.1.2.1
• Adulteress forced to have lover's head before her at meals. Q478.1.4
• Queen forced to do menial service rescued by son. Q482.2.1
• Adulteress forced to wear symbolic dress. Husband makes her dress in coarse cloth except for her undefiled parts which are covered with gold brocade. (Cf. Q241.) Q487
• Curse for enforced hospitality. Q556.7.1
• Sinners in hell forced to sit in dark puddles up to their middles. (Cf. A689.1.) Q569.1
• Murder by feeding on over-hot food. Person forced to eat. S112.5
• Person forced to eat red-hot meal. S183.0.1
• Person forced to eat hearts (flesh) of relatives (draw blood). S183.1
• Person forced to eat loathsome animal. S183.2
• Maid eloping with pretended lover is forced by him to strip. T72.1
• Wife prefers to be burned together with husband even though she was forced to marry him and she has helped to prepare the revenge. T211.2.1.1
• Girl forced to marry before sweetheart's return is faithful to her husband. When she refuses to give her former fiancé a kiss, he falls dead. She goes to his funeral and falls dead over his body. T211.7
• Forced peace valueless. U220
• Stingy man forced to share his money when he lies and says he has none. W152.4
• Dwarf poet forced to swim in drinking-horn of human being. X142.2