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- Clouds as tapa beaten out by woman in moon. A705.1.2
- Why dog looks back at person who has beaten him. A2471.6.1
- Talking animal or object refuses to talk on demand. Discoverer is unable to prove his claims: is beaten. B210.2
- Animals produced when forbidden drum is beaten. C916.2
- Person beaten by whips for breaking tabu. C982
- Rock beaten by sword provides water. (Cf. D930.) D1549.5.1
- Hunting woman beaten with sticks of rowan-tree and ankles of corpse tied with branches of same tree. E442.1
- Wild huntsman has his horse beaten. E501.15.2
- Changeling beaten and left outside; the mortal child is returned. F321.1.4.6
- Hunchback cured by having hump severely beaten. F953.1
- Witch bound and beaten. G275.7
- Recognition by shoes with which the father had once beaten his son. H36.1.1
- Princess wins wrestling match with suitor by revealing her breast. He looks and is beaten. H331.6.1.1
- Bride test: to allow oneself to be beaten with shoe. H386.1
- Question (propounded on quest): Why is the cow so severely beaten every day by her calf? Answer: in her last birth she had been the young of her present calf and had treated it the same way. H1292.16
- Tiger, jackal, and bear each learn to fear man. They report him as head-thumper (he has beaten the tiger), turn-twister (he has swung jackal by tail), and top-tumbler (he has fallen out of tree on bear). J17.1
- Wisdom acquired from beating. Incognito prince, beaten for his courtesy, realizes his folly and returns home. J18
- "Go to Goosebridge": counsel proved wise by experience. Man with disobedient wife finds mules beaten there and made to cross bridge. J21.16
- Preacher teaches beaten Genoese the strength of unity. They are like donkeys – when one is beaten the rest scatter. The enemy are like pigs – stick together in trouble. J1021.2
- To be beaten by deceiver of husband. Lady has her women ready to give a trickster a beating. He is allowed to make one request. The one who has most often deceived her husband shall strike first. J1182.1