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- Ghost an unjustly executed man. Real murderer found. E234.4
- Donkey ruling a kingdom: king condemning man unjustly. H592.5
- King brought to sense of duty by woman's words. Drunken king sentences unjustly. Woman asks to appear before the king before he has dined. Her case is retried. J816.3
- Bought behind the village. Lawyer declares unjustly that stolen horse has been bought and paid for. Angry farmer: "Yes, behind the village he bought and paid for it" (meaning that he stole it from the pasture). Lawyer pleads successfully that it is as well to buy a horse outside as inside the village. J1169.2
- Brother unjustly imprisoned by brother. P251.5.5
- Suspected incontinence unjustly punished. Q243.0.2
- Tale-bearer unjustly drowned for lack of proof of accusation. S461
- Wolf unjustly accuses lamb and eats him. When all the lamb's defenses are good the wolf asserts the right of the strong over the weak. (Usually accused of stirring up water from lower in stream.) (Cf. U141.) U31
- Cat unjustly accuses cock and eats him. Although all the cock's defenses are good the cat tells him that she can no longer go hungry and eats him. U31.1
- Violence of judge's temper leads him to have men given death sentence unjustly. W185.5