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- Saint's prayer brings large flight of birds carrying stones in talons. These missiles dropped upon enemies cause terror. D2163.5.1
- Hair turns gray from terror. F1041.7
- Foolish peasants carry couple to burial; when "corpses" speak they flee in terror. J2311.9
- The sleeper answers for the dead man. A man falls asleep by a gallows. A company of wags come and invite the dead man on the gallows to accompany them. The sleeper awakes with a start and says, "I'll come at once." The wags flee in terror. J2618
- Scratching contest: man's wife shows wounds. The man sends his wife to meet the ogre with whom he is to have a scratching contest. She tells the ogre that her husband has gone to have his nails sharpened. She shows him deep wounds that her husband has scratched on her body (obscene). The ogre leaves in terror. K83.1
- Robbers frightened by pretended cannibalism. Tricksters threaten to cook a robber. All the robbers flee in terror, leaving them their booty. K335.1.10
- Terrorizing the paramour (importunate lover). K1213
- The wolf flees from the wolf-head. The sheep have found a sack and a wolf-head. They make the wolf believe that they have killed a wolf, and he flees in terror. K1715.3
- Bluff: small (lame) hero makes demon believe he is a god and threatens to eat him. Demon terrorized. K1715.7
- Old woman and tiger flee in terror from each other. K2323.3
- Curse of everlasting terror. M403
- Passengers on a boat are terrorized by a cutthroat. He turns courteous and leaves them unharmed. N695