• Frightened rabbit puts head in charred tree: hence black ears. (Cf. A2325.2.) A2212.1
• Frightened animals scatter: cause of present habitat of each. (Cf. A2433.1.) A2212.2
• Dragon guards hermit's food, frightens off robbers. B11.6.5
• Vegetable lamb. Generated from ground. Umbilical cord is in the ground and the lambs will die if it is forcibly severed. They are frightened into severing it themselves and then live. Vertebrae of the neck planted to produce new ones. B95
• Person frightened by animals successively replying to his remarks. Example: Man riding horse and followed by dog tells horse to jump over a hole. Horse says, "I will not." Man turns to dog and says, "Isn't that strange – a horse talking!" The dog says, "Yes, isn't it." Often the man runs, meeting other animals which answer him, until he falls exhausted. B210.1
• The cat as vixen's husband. Frightens the other wild animals invited by the vixen. (Cf. K2324.) B281.9.1
• Man falls in hole with horse; buzzards gather; he lassoes a number of buzzards, ties them together, frightens them; all fly at once, carry him from hole. (Tall tale.) B547.2.1
• Robbers frightened by grateful dog. B576.1.2
• Transformation to frighten enemy. (Cf. D641.3.) D651.2
• Magic object left by frightened demons. D859.7
• Magic power lost by being frightened. D1741.5
• Plants and animals magically caused to shriek, frightening enemy. D2091.12
• Resuscitation my frightening dead. Frequently combined with E61. E25
• Ghost frightens people off bridge into stream. E272.3
• Ghosts frighten people (deliberately). E293
• Frightening thing at bridge to land of dead. E481.2.1.1
• Wild hunt frightened away by scolding. E501.17.8.1
• Frightened soul cannot return to body. E721.1.2.5
• Theft of money from fairies by frightening them away from it. F351.2
• Dwarfs frighten mortals. F451.5.2.10

all 190 in the index →

• ATU 118 The Lion Frightened by the Horse
• ATU 126A* The Frightened Wolves
• ATU 1321 Fools Frightened
• ATU 1321C Fools are Frightened at the Humming of Bees (bumblebee, hornet)
• ATU 1419F Husband Frightened by Wife's Lover in Hog Pen
• ATU 1676B Frightened to Death (previously Clothing Caught in Graveyard)
• ATU 229 Animals Fear a Bird's Body Part (previously The Hawk Frightened at the Snipe's Bill)