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• Flood brought as revenge for injury. A1018.3
• Creation of animals to take revenge. A1732
• Animal's revenge for being criticized by a bird: nest destroyed. B275.4
• Animal takes revenge on man. B299.1
• Eagle takes revenge on man. B299.1.1
• Demons assume human form to revenge brother's death. D651.1.2
• Transformation as revenge for repulsing amorous advances. D661.1
• Return from dead as punishment for trying to raise ghost. (Cf. E384ff., F491.7.) Ghost accuses man of stealing a trifle and thus has revenge. E235.3
• Ghost laid when revenge is accomplished. E451.9
• Reincarnation for revenge. E693
• Drowned girl reborn as leech to take revenge on murderers. E693.1
• Woman reborn as bedbug to take revenge on husband. (Cf. E616.5.) E693.2
• Woman reborn as scorpion to take revenge on husband. E693.3
• Fairy's revenge. F361
• Fairy takes revenge for being slighted. F361.1
• Fairy takes revenge for not being invited to feast. F361.1.1
• Fairy takes revenge for not being offered food (drink). F361.1.2
• Fairy takes revenge for mortal's failure to bring food and drink to fairy son's wedding. F361.1.2.1
• Fairy takes revenge for theft. F361.2
• Fairies take revenge on person who spies on them. Spy uses magic salve on one eye. Fairies tear out the eye. F361.3
• Fairies take revenge on trespassers on ground they claim as theirs. F361.4
• Fairies take revenge on mortals who hold their king captive. F361.7
• Fairy takes revenge for slaying of his relatives. F361.8
• Fairies take revenge for being dishonored. F361.9
• Fairies take revenge for being teased. F361.10
• Fairies take revenge on mortals who destroy their homes. F361.12
• Fairies take revenge for cheating. F361.13
• Fairies take revenge on smith who disturbs them in the smithy when he returns after dark to get medicine. F361.17.2
• Water-spirits take revenge on mortals. F420.5.2.6
• Water-spirits take revenge if yearly tribute is not given. F420.5.2.6.1
• Water-spirits take revenge for trespassing on ground they claim as theirs. F420.5.2.6.2
• Water-spirits take revenge for being harmed. F420.5.2.6.3
• Water-spirits take revenge on mortals for pollution of water. F420.5.2.6.6
• Will-o'-the-Wisp's revenge. F491.5
• Devil prevented from revenge by pious priest. G303.16.11.2
• Stealing from ogre for revenge. G610.1
• Man cuts hooks for the revenge of his father (Hamlet). H591.3
• Take money instead of revenge. Fool advises uncle, in letter which he did not send, to take money from wife's paramour instead of revenge. J229.11
• Choice: death and revenge preferred to life. J494
• Avoiding enemy's revenge. J647
• Avoid enemies' revenge either by making peace and friendship or by killing them all. So says old man to conqueror. J647.1
• Advice not to rob women while they are alone, for fear of returning husbands' revenge. J647.2
• The porter's revenge for the three wise counsels. A man offers a porter three wise counsels for carrying his goods. "When anyone tells you that hunger and satisfaction are the same, don't believe him." The second and third are similar and equally valueless. The porter throws down the load: "When anyone tells you that any part of this load is not broken, don't believe him." J1511.6
• Trickster's interrupted feast revenged. He is asked a question by his master each time he tries to eat a date, so that he always has to spit out the date. He revenges himself that night when the master tries to carry on an intrigue with his wife's maid. He comes with his answers at embarrassing moments. J1564.1
• Revenge by interrupting feast. A rabbi who has been inhospitably treated is afterwards invited to dinner. He keeps the guests so amused by his jokes that they fail to eat and the feast is spoiled. J1564.2
• Literal misconstruction of order. Hero gets revenge. J2516.0.1
• Man is robbed of gold chain while with prostitute. He swallows her string of pearls in revenge. (Cf. K302.1.) K306.3
• Trail of stolen goods made to lead to dupe. The crane in revenge for the loss of her young ones strews pieces of fish from the dwelling of the mongoose to that of the snake. The mongoose follows the trail and kills the snake. K401.1.1
• Fox persuades bird to show him how she acts in a storm: he devours her. (Bird has advised other bird how to avoid the fox; he is revenged.) K827.1
• Disguised shipwrecked men admitted to the king's house kill him at Yule feast in revenge for murder. K913.1
• Aristotle and Phyllis: philosopher as riding horse for woman. The philosopher warns the king against uxoriousness. In revenge the queen beguiles the philosopher into letting her ride him on all-fours. The king comes and sees. K1215
• Suitors one by one enticed into graveyard and left together. They later get revenge. K1218.3
• Three women humiliate importunate lover. First has him hide on thorns, second has him fall into a hole, third has him fall asleep in the street. In revenge he shows them naked, except for face, to his friends. (Cf. K1213.1.) K1218.4.1
• Blinded slave's revenge. Threatens to jump from tower with lord's children unless lord blinds himself. Lord does so but slave jumps with children nevertheless. K1465
• Wife of philanderer gets revenge by having an affair herself. K1510.2
• Person sends wrong man to sleep with king's daughter. In revenge villain orders whoever first enters temple to be killed. Villain accidentally enters and is slain. K1612.1
• Tail sticking from ground betrays killing of calf. So arranged by servant in revenge on his master. K1686
• Queen kills her husband as revenge of his killing of her father and brother. K2213.13
• Queen deceives her husband as revenge for his killing of her lover and brother (Helgi.) K2213.14
• Wife betrays husband in revenge for his once having taken a second wife. K2213.16
• Fox burns tree in which eagle has nest. Revenges theft of cub. L315.3
• Mother ape burns bear. Revenges theft of her young. L315.4
• Arrogant farmer allows none to ride his precious horse without permission. He kills the man who does it, but is in revenge deprived of most of his goods. L434
• Vow not to kiss anybody until father is revenged. M152.1
• Vow not to sit on father's high-seat until he is revenged. M152.2
• Vow to revenge (king, friends, father) or die. M161.2
• Vow not to devastate country or take revenge after release. M168
• Prophecy: unborn child to kill enemy in revenge. M359.3
• Curse by girl in revenge of the murdering of her foster father. M411.11
• Curse: undertaking dangerous revenge of father. M446.1
• Priest frightens boy by tying girl's corpse to bell-rope. In revenge the boy puts the body in the priest's bed. Priest flees. Dies from injuries. N384.8
• King slain by "his own household" in revenge for deposing his father. P16.7
• Queen leaves country with her son, having killed her husband in revenge for his killing of her father and brother. P22.1
• Mother kills sons who lack courage to help her revenge her father and brothers, and are likely to betray the plot. P231.4
• Revenge given up as reward for hospitality. (Cf. Q151.6.) Q45.4
• God revenges murder after thirty years. Q211.0.1
• Killing an animal revenged. (Cf. Q231, Q424.1, Q582.4.) Q211.6
• Theft from dwarf (witch) revenged. Q212.1
• Maidens slain in revenge for deaths of young men. Q411.12
• Woman must relight magic fires as punishment. Magician in revenge for ill-treatment causes the lights of the city to go out. They can be relighted only from the naked body of the woman in the public square. None can be relighted until all have applied their torches. Q492
• Abduction of bridegroom and killing of his bride planned as giantess's revenge. R10.4.1
• Outcast wife commits suicide when confronted with heads of relatives killed in revenge for her wrong-doing. S452
• Rejected suitors' revenge. T75.2.1
• 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
• Woman reveals whereabouts of husband to enemy in revenge for desertion. T244
• Woman reveals whereabouts of husband to hungry bear in revenge for desertion. T244.1
• Monks get revenge on millers. Drunken millers force monks to dance. Millers are enticed to monastery and beaten. X214
• Cold depreciated and praised. Depreciated, takes revenge by becoming colder; praised, makes reward, gives clothing. Z139.4.1