Animals fight together with their master.
Show referencesTabu: doing thing in certain manner.
Show referencesTransformation and disenchantment at will.
Show referencesMagic writings on stone cause corpse to answer for absent man.
Show referencesRejuvenation by changing skin.
Show referencesMagic illusion.
Show referencesMagician makes people lift garments to avoid wetting in imaginary river.
Show referencesMagician appears as beggar or old man in order to free prisonerr.
Show referencesGhost summoned.
Show referencesDwarf prevented from getting into his stone before sunrise till he promises to do what hero demands (esp. to forge weapons).
Show referencesDwarfs as smiths.
Show referencesBlue man, Old Norse »blámaðr«.
Show referencesHalf white and half red man.
Show referencesPerson hundreds of years old.
Show referencesTwelve berserks.
Show referencesUnderground house.
Show referencesMen go mad in battle.
Show referencesDecision of victory by single combat or holmgang between army-leaders.
Show referencesTask left by departing husband for virgin wife to accomplish: have a son whose real mother she is, and woase real father he is.
Show referencesExecution evaded by having three wishes granted: to be emperor, judge, and the emperor's son-in-law during the last week of his life. As judge he frees himself and is in reality freed.
Show referencesConfederate in disguise as beggar helps to escape.
Show referencesDisguised queen visits her husband and begets child with him as assigned.
Show referencesWife takes mistress's place in husband's bed. Brings about reconciliation.
Show referencesFalse tidings of one's own death in order to be able to leave without notice.
Show referencesHearth abode of unpromising hero.
Show referencesDeath as result of mistaken identity: wrong person killed.
Show referencesSon killed because mistaken for someone else.
Show referencesCombatants become sworn brethren.
Show referencesTournaments.
Show referencesWooing by emissary.
Show referencesJealous husband spends all his earnings as skillful smith bribing courtiers not to talk to his wife, and at last locks her up in hut in the forest.
Show referencesWarrior retires into monastery in his old days.
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