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- Wind raised by throwing traitor's ashes into lake. D2142.1.4.1
- Ancient and modern ancestors. To a prince who boasted that he was descended from the Trojans a doctor replies: "My people are of Nurenberg. Everyone knows who they are; but of the Trojans no one knows anything except that Aeneas was a traitor and Romulus a robber." J1357
- Taking cold in effigy. A traitor is hanged in effigy naked. Later the citizens sue for peace and arrange a meeting. They find him in a hot room swathed with many blankets. He says that he has taken cold when the night wind blew on him as he hung naked from the gallows. J1628
- Villains and traitors. K2200
- Dark traitors. Persons darks by race, habitual occupation, or complexion, or even marvelously colored, are frequently traitors in folk-tales. K2260
- Other villains and traitors. K2290
- Other villains and traitors – miscellaneous. K2299
- Burning as punishment for traitor. (Cf. Q261.) Q414.0.5
- Burning for traitor: unwittingly suggested by culprit. Q414.0.5.1
- Traitor thrown into pit so that he sticks to the waist and is then chased out of the country. (Cf. Q261.) Q417.2