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- The Dead Rider (Lenore). Dead lover returns and takes sweetheart with him on horseback. She is sometimes saved at the grave by the crowing of the cock, though the experience is usually fatal. E215
- Ghost rides on horseback with rider. (Cf. E215.) E332.3.1
- Journey to upper world on horseback. F66
- Journey to otherworld on horseback. F159.2
- Death on horseback. F492
- King so old that he cannot get on horseback without help. F571.6
- Man who is too heavy for any horse walks faster than horseback riders. F681.9
- Suitor contest: jumping river on horseback. H331.1.6
- King: What do you see? Youth: One and a half men and a horse's head. (Himself, the legs of the king on horseback in the door, and the horse's head.) H583.1
- Pursuing the rabbit who harmed the garden. Peasant asks a nobleman's help against a rabbit. The nobleman chases the rabbit on horseback for five days and ruins the peasant's crop. J2103.2
- A beggar tells the bishop how to stay warm. For a gulden he tells him that he should wear all his clothes when he goes horseback in winter. K151
- Trickster rides dupe horseback. Usually by feigning sickness he induces the dupe to carry him and then boasts that the dupe always acts as his horse. K1241
- When he is looked at too threateningly hero feigns failing ability to go on horseback. K1777
- Horse accidentally poisoned instead of master. An attempt is made to give the hero a poisoned cup. He is on horseback and spurs his horse away to avoid the cup. The poison is spilled and enters the horse's ear and kills him. N332.2
- Mutilated man on horseback chased into the forest. S143.3