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- Sun and moon as eyes of Rama which he tore out after his brother's death. A714.7
- Sister-in-law tabu: older brother must avoid younger brother's wife. C172
- Demons assume human form to revenge brother's death. D651.1.2
- Dead brother's return. E226
- Dead brother's friendly return. E326
- Troll's life in his brother's forehead. E714.3.1
- Madness (rage) from hearing about brother's death. F1041.8.10
- One dueller fights with God's help; the other with his brother's. First claims that the odds are unfair; second agrees that he will fight without his brother if the first will fight without God. J1217.1
- Boy strikes at a fly on his sister's breast: it turns into nipple and girl thinks it due to brother's caress. J1833.1.1
- Numskull prepares brother's wedding (father's funeral). On the way home from town he destroys his purchases. (Cf. J1851, J1856, J1871.) J1846
- Man avenges brother's death by wholesale slaughter of wild pigs. J1866.1
- Thief's confederate cuts off own arm to furnish alibi for family's grief. (Previously he had severed father's or brother's head to escape detection.) K407.2.1
- Brother causes brother's death by sending him to robbers and giving false advice. K991.1
- Bluff: thunder said to be the rolling of hero's brother's wagon. Ogre overawed. K1718.1
- Unwitting adultery with blood-brother's wife. N766
- Brothers scorn brother's wise counsel. P251.4
- Girl comes to brother's aid when he is attacked. She slays the assailant and is eventually acquitted. P253.4
- Sister avenges brother's death. P253.5
- Earl's son seduces foster brother's sister and betrays himself. P273.2.2
- Cruel king slays brother and brother's son. S11.3.5