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- Moon's eclipse caused by moon's interfering between attacker and person attacked. A737.5
- Animal's habits when attacked. A2462
- Why squirrel barks when attacked. A2462.1
- Why beaver splashes his tail in water and dives when attacked. A2462.2
- Merman attacked by putting steel in the water. B82.5
- Hero attacked by revenant with half a head, carrying man with half a body. (Cf. E461, E422.1.1, F511.0.5.) E261.1.3
- Man attacked on Christmas night by dancing ghosts. E261.3
- Transformed fairy warriors disenchanted when attacked. F383.5
- Strong hero attacked with millstone puts it on as collar. Sent to dig a well. Master throws the millstone on him. F615.3.1
- Woman will not follow donkey on safe path: attacked by robbers. J133.4
- Flea and fever exchange night-lodgings. Flea had attacked abbess and been chased all night; fever, a washerwoman who nearly froze it to death by going to the river and washing clothes. They exchange and succeed. J612.1
- Man decides to make himself strong in peaceful times rather than wait until attacked. J674.2
- Robbers' false plea admitted: counteraccusation. Robbers claim a man's knife. In court: "The knife may indeed be theirs. I and my father were attacked yesterday by robbers. I fled. On returning I found my father killed and this knife in his body." Robbers condemned. J1162.2
- When royal mace-bearer is attacked he throws away mace: attackers accuse him of insult to king. J1166.2
- Cat mistaken for devil. Fool in the dark mistakes cat's eyes for embers. Is attacked by the cat and he thinks it is the devil. J1785.5
- Preliminary drawing of swords. Travelers say they will not have time to do so when attacked. J2255
- Sham murder: trickster attacked by angry mother causes her to spear ox guts and believe she has murdered him. K522.7
- Escape by use of substituted object. The object is attacked rather than the intended victim. K525
- Female confederate disrobes before hero, who is attacked when he looks away. K832.3
- Trickster being attacked by ferocious animal persuades dupe to take his place. K846