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- Dragon guards hermit's food, frightens off robbers. B11.6.5
- Grateful hyena leads lost hermit from wilderness as reward for his help. B380.1
- Magic power of hermit (saint, yogi). (Cf. P426.2.) D1713
- Soul of hermit who fasts to death for worldly fame would be damned but for past good deeds. E754.4
- Hermit's hut at border of otherworld. F147.2
- Devil as a hermit. G303.3.1.8.1
- Devil tempts cleric (hermit). G303.9.4.4
- Devils leave hermit who turns other cheek when struck. G303.16.15
- Hermit explains why anger is sin. J153.2
- Angel and hermit. Angel takes hermit with him and does many seemingly unjust things. Later shows why each of these was just. J225.0.1
- Angel explains to hermit why God lets a sinner die in peace and have big funeral while holy hermit is slain by a wild beast. J225.0.1.1
- Angel in form of young man shows skeptical hermit that ways of providence are inscrutable. J225.0.3
- Three sins of the hermit. Choice of three sins given him: adultery, murder (theft), drunkenness. He chooses drunkenness; the others follow. (Cf. J21.25.) J485
- Hermit (deceived by the devil) kills his own father, supposing him to be the devil. K943
- Monkey instead of girl in floating basket: hermit made laughing-stock. He has persuaded girl's foolish father to place her in the basket. Prince takes girl and leaves monkey in her place. (Cf. K1333, K1674.) K1625
- Repentant nurse disguises as hermit. K1837.3
- "Holy" hermit surprised in amorous intrigue. K2064
- Self-righteous hermit must do penance. He has said of a condemned man that he deserves his punishment. L435.1
- Hermit curses men who kill his pet bear and all the men die. M411.8.2
- Hermit as helper. N843