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Motifs
- Plants and animals magically caused to shriek, frightening enemy. D2091.12
- Resuscitation my frightening dead. Frequently combined with E61. E25
- Frightening thing at bridge to land of dead. E481.2.1.1
- Theft of money from fairies by frightening them away from it. F351.2
- Old sausage (roll) taken for frightening animal. J1771.2
- The goose without a leg. Accused of eating the goose's leg, the thief maintains that it had no leg, and cleverly enforces his point by showing geese standing on one leg. (Usually the master confounds the rascal by frightening the geese so that they use both legs) K402.1
- Escape by frightening would-be captors. (Cf. K1710.) K547
- Escape by frightening tiger into thinking goat in cave is the ghost of his father. K547.12
- One animal saves another by frightening enemy away. K641
- Deception by frightening. K2320