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- Magic horse avenges hero's death. B184.1.7
- Faithful animal at master's grave avenges his murder. B301.2
- Animal avenges murder. B591
- Animal avenges injury. B857
- External soul avenges murder. E710.2
- Fairy avenges self on man who scorns her love. F302.3.3
- Fairy avenges herself on inconstant lover (husband). F302.3.3.1
- Cobold avenges uncivil answer (or treatment). F481.1
- Man avenges self on animals by wholesale slaughter. J1866
- Man avenges brother's death by wholesale slaughter of wild pigs. J1866.1
- Husband feigns blindness and avenges himself on his wife and her paramour. K1553
- After seducing priest's wife, peasant demands earrings as price of silence. He thus avenges himself on priest who has cheated peasant's wife of her earrings. K1582.1
- Girl in man's clothes avenges her father. K1837.4
- Orphan hero lives with grandmother. Avenges slaughtered kin. L111.4.1
- King avenges lack of homage. P12.12
- Son avenges father. P233.6
- Sister avenges brother's death. P253.5
- Beggar avenges self on queen who spits at him by disguising as prince and spitting in her face. Q471.2
- Woman avenges scorned love. T71.2
- Bird avenges caged mate. Builds cart, yokes frogs to it, arms himself with piece of reed, and proclaims war with king. Collects cat, ants, rope, club, and river. He is put by king into fowl house; cat eats up fowls. In stable rope and club beat up horses. In elephant-house ants get into their brains and kill them all. Tied to king's bed, river floods king in his bed. King gives bird back his mate. Z52