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• Culture hero returns to upper world. A566
• Culture hero (divinity) returns. A581
• Culture hero returns and assists mortals. A581.1
• Culture hero returns and aids followers in battle. A581.2
• Culture hero returns to prove power of saint. A581.3
• Sun's night journey with reversed face. It returns from west to east by the same way that it came, but it turns its light side to the sky and leaves the earth in darkness. A722.2
• Dove returns to ark in obedience to Noah: receives sheen of raven. A2221.7
• Son accidentally kills father, who returns to life as cuckoo and tells people when to sow grain. A2275.6
• Dragon fight: respite granted and dragon returns with renewed strength. B11.11.1
• Dog returns from dead to clear master of murder. B134.5
• Fly habitually buzzes when cleric returns from matins. B251.2.4
• Wolf returns sheep stolen from saint. B256.11
• Person returns to original form when tabu is broken. A person originally transformed from an animal or an object returns to that form when the origin is mentioned. (Cf. C31.2, C33.1, C35.1, C440, C441.) C963
• Person returns to original animal form when tabu is broken. C963.1
• Person returns to original egg form when tabu is broken. C963.2
• Person returns to original vegetable form when tabu is broken. C963.3
• Swine bridegroom. Bride disenchants him by her love. He returns to original form. D733.2
• Magic object returns to original place. D868
• Magic mango returns to tree for broken tabu. D868.1
• Magic stone hits everything and returns by itself. (Cf. D931.) D1401.5
• Hero's breath returns head to headless horseman. (Cf. D1005.) D1518.3
• Saint's bell when stolen miraculously returns. (Cf. D1213.) D1602.8
• Saint's bachall when lost returns. (Cf. D1277.) D1602.9
• Self-returning head. When head is cut off it returns to proper place without harm to owner. (Cf. D992.) D1602.12
• Arrow shot at bull returns to shooter. (Cf. D1092.) D1602.16
• Magic object when sold always returns to original owner. (Cf. D1605, D1602.11.) D1602.17
• Magic ring when sold returns to original owner. (Cf. D1076.) D1602.17.1
• Magic object given away returns to giver. D1602.18
• Equipment of slain hunter returns alone. (Cf. D1170.) D1602.19
• Magic thieving pot. Boy sells pot to neighbors and when they have put things into it the pot returns to the boy. (Cf. D1171.1.) D1605.1
• Sacred scroll returns to heaven. (Cf. D1266.1, V151.) D1641.11
• Magic object departs and returns at formulistic command. D1686
• Deer foster parent of hero comes alive from its burial hill when youth returns to spot and carries him off to jungle again. E138.1
• Dead lover returns to dance with fickle sweetheart at her wedding. E214.1
• The Dead Rider (Lenore). Dead lover returns and takes sweetheart with him on horseback. She is sometimes saved at the grave by the crowing of the cock, though the experience is usually fatal. E215
• Dead wife returns to reprove husband's second wife. E221.2
• Dead wife returns to reprove husband's second wife for abusing her step-children. E221.2.1
• Dead husband returns to reprove wife's second husband (lover). E221.3
• Dead husband returns to protest wife's spending his money. E221.4
• Dead mother returns to invoke curse on murderer-son. E222.3
• Ghost returns to murderer, causes him to confess. E231.5
• Ghost returns to slay man who has injured it while living. E232.2
• Ghost returns to slay enemies. E232.4
• Ghost returns to demand vengeance. (Cf. E232.2.) E234.0.1
• Ghost returns to demand proper burial. E235.2
• Ghost returns because corpse was not properly burned. E235.2.2
• Adulteress returns from dead as devastating dragon. E263
• Dead husband returns and lives with his wife. He is invisible to others. (Cf. F378.) E321.2
• Dead husband returns, helps wife knit socks, piece quilts. She shows his work as proof. E321.2.1
• Dead husband returns, asks wife to make him coffee. E321.3
• Dead wife returns and bears children for husband. E322.1
• Dead wife returns to wake husband. E322.2
• Dead wife returns and asks husband to go with her to spirit world. E322.2.1
• Dead wife returns in form of bird. E322.4
• Dead wife returns to live with her husband until his death. E322.6
• Dead wife returns to another person to have him write a letter to her husband. E322.7
• Dead mother returns to see baby. E323.1
• Dead mother returns to suckle child. E323.1.1
• Dead mother returns to care for neglected baby. E323.1.2
• Dead mother returns to aid persecuted children. E323.2
• Dead mother (in animal form) returns to aid persecuted children. E323.2.1
• Mother returns to search for dead child. E323.5
• Mother returns to encourage daughter in great difficulties. E323.6
• Dead father returns to daughter to stop her weeping. (Cf. E324.) E327.1
• Dead father returns to encourage daughter in childbirth. E327.2
• Dead father returns to clear son's name of crime. E327.3
• Ghost of father returns to rebuke child. E327.4
• Dead father returns in form of bird. (Cf. E322.4.) E327.5
• Grateful priest returns to save gambler from devil. E341.5
• Dead returns to repair injury. E345
• Dead returns to replace boundary marks he has removed. (Cf. E416.) E345.1
• Dead returns to repay money debt. E351
• Dead returns to restore stolen goods. E352
• Ghost returns to aid living. E363
• Ghost returns to protect the living. E363.2
• Dead returns to say farewell. E364
• Saint returns from dead to give blessing. E367.2
• Pupil returns from dead to warn master of futility of his studies. E368
• Dead returns to supply tribe with money demanded by landlord. E373.4
• Dead returns to life and tells of journey to land of dead. E374
• Ghost returns to confess misdeed. E376
• Saint returns from dead to exonerate cleric. E376.1
• Ghost returns to hunt lost article. E415.1
• Dead rich man returns to rebuke his children who have kept the money he promised to the church. E415.2
• Ghost returns to enforce its burial wishes or to protest disregard of them. E419.8
• Living corpse returns every night, shows gradual wasting away of body. E422.1.9
• Ghost comes through certain crevice: when this is barred she never returns. E445.1
• Dead returns soon after burial. E586
• Ghost returns before burial. E586.0.1
• Dead returns on burial day. E586.1
• Dead returns third day after burial. E586.2
• Reincarnation: boy to bird to boy. Boy returns as bird, who later becomes the boy. E610.1.1
• Wraith returns to home and goes to bed while body is at home of friends in deep reverie. E723.4.1
• Rescued princess leaves her necklace behind in flight; hero returns for it and is left in underworld. F102.3
• Beggar returns to his mother child stolen by fairies. F321.4
• Stolen mother returns from fairyland each Sunday to minister to her children. F322.3
• Girl borrows comb and mirror from bonga (fairy): carried to fairyland when she returns them. (Cf. F322.1.1.) F324.1
• Fairies carry off youth; he has gift of prophecy when he returns to earth (Thomas the Rhymer). F329.1
• Fairies do all house and farm work for family who returns lost child. F339.3.1
• Fairies give haymakers dinner each year until one of men keeps a fairy knife. They give no more food even though the man returns the knife. (Cf. F353.) F343.17