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• "Ah me!": ogre's name uttered. He appears. C21
• Magic object taken from ogre's house. D838.2
• Magic diamond on ogre's waist opens passage in tank by its reflection on water. D1551.7
• Resuscitation of decapitated princess by hero by imitating ogre's actions of night before: passing sword three times up and down her throat. E149.2
• Ogre's soul in "pale spot" below his right ear. (Cf. Z311.2.) E714.10
• Ogre's life in parrot's feather in man's pocket. E715.1.3.1
• Multiple separable souls: ogre's separable spirits live in a tree (plant), fish, honey bee. E718
• Giant ogre's prodigious speed. G157
• Large tusks grown from ogre's mouth. G363.2
• Person falls into ogre's power. G400
• Children wander into ogre's house. G401
• Pursuit of animal leads to ogre's house. G402
• Pursuit of bird leads to ogre's house. G402.1
• Man on hunt falls into ogre's (witch's) power. G405
• Lost (marooned) person falls into ogre's power. G406
• Person betrayed into ogre's power. G410
• Children lured into ogre's house. G412
• Ogre's gingerbread house lures child. G412.1
• Ball falling into water puts person into ogre's (witch's, water spirit's) power. G423
• Falling into ogre's power – miscellaneous. G450
• Falling into ogre's power through fascination with his daughter. (Cf. G530.2.) G455
• Youth promised to ogre visits ogre's home. G461
• Boy in ogre's house sees many human heads placed in rows: heads smile and weep. G461.1
• Person as servant in ogre's house. G462
• Hero as giant's (ogre's) goatherd. G462.1
• Ogre's daughter killed together with her father. G512.0.2
• Ogre's head and hands cut off and hung above city gate. G512.1.2.1
• Ogre's wife (daughter) burned in his own oven. G512.3.2.1
• Giant's (ogre's) arm pulled (cut) off by defender of castle (house). G512.6.1
• Backbone of ogre's old mother broken. G512.7
• Ogre's wife killed through other tricks. G519.1
• Faithful hound kills ogre's wife. G519.1.1
• Ogre's relative aids hero. G530
• Help from ogre's wife (mistress). G530.1
• Help from ogre's daughter (or son). (Cf. G455.) G530.2
• Help from ogre's mother. G530.3
• Help from ogre's grandmother. G530.4
• Help from old woman in ogre's house. G530.5
• Ogre's maidservant as helper. G530.6
• Captive woman in ogre's house helps hero. G535
• Ogre's charm stolen. G613
• Killing of ogre's cattle, sheep, etc. brings on ogre's anger. G614
• Ogre's ashes cast on stream cause rapids to stop. Also kill all creatures in the stream. G655
• Ogre's secret overheard. G661
• Ogre's secret overheard from tree. G661.1
• Ogre's secret overheard by masking as bird. G661.2
• Ogre's wife jealous of him. G674
• Bodies of victims in front of ogre's house. G691
• Widow(s) of ogre's victims seen at ogre's house. G691.2
• Maimed victims seen at ogre's house. G691.3
• Task: stealing ogre's grain. H1151.25
• Throwing contest: trickster addresses Angel Gabriel. Offers him the ogre's cane. The ogre is intimidated. K18.1.1
• Red ants' nest broken and thrown down on ogre's head. K621.1
• Hot porridge in the ogre's throat. He is tricked into burning his throat. K1033
• Ogre's (dwarf's) beard caught fast. K1111.1
• Substituted caps cause ogre to kill his own children. The hero and heroine change places in bed with the ogre's children and put on them their caps so that the ogre is deceived. K1611
• Noose changed so that ogre's daughter is dragged to death. K1611.4
• Ogre's own moccasins burned. The ogre plans to burn the hero's moccasins while they are camping together, but the hero exchanges the moccasins. K1615
• Marooned man hides himself in ogre's clothes and outwits him. K1616.2
• The woman as cuckoo on the tree shot down. The anger bargain is to cease when the cuckoo crows. The ogre's wife climbs the tree and imitates the cuckoo. She is shot down. K1691
• Ogre's son guardian of treasure trove. N571.1
• Man marries ogre's daughter. T115