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- God takes form successively of ants, scorpion, and cobra. A132.0.1.1
- Scorpions in hell. A671.2.9
- Origin of scorpion. A2092
- Origin of leaf-scorpion. A2092.1
- Hostile scorpion. B17.2.4
- Scorpion scoops out men's eyes. B17.2.4.1
- Army of snakes and scorpions. B268.7.1
- Giant scorpion. B873.2
- Transformation: money of the hard-hearted to scorpions. (Cf. D444.2, D444.4, D469.11, D471.1). D444.1
- What religious ascetic sees as gold, ordinary people see as scorpions. D1825.8
- Reincarnation as scorpion. E629.1
- Woman reborn as scorpion to take revenge on husband. E693.3
- Ornaments of snakes, hornets, scorpions, dirt, and a toad. F827.3
- Ashes transformed into bees, wasps, scorpions and snakes drive invading army away for hero. K2351.2.2
- Prophecy: death from bite of stone lion. Man killed by scorpion concealed in the statue. M341.2.10
- Poor man carries unwittingly in his water jar a large scorpion which brings him fortune. N426
- Only particular persons see hidden treasure in its true form; others see it as coal, serpents, scorpions, etc. N543.0.1
- Punishment: being bitten by scorpion. Q453.2
- Scorpion, in spite of himself, stings the turtle carrying him across the stream. Is drowned. U124