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"Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight" (Ch 4)
"Earl Brand" (Ch 7)
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A suitor ("offender") attracts a young maiden ("offended") along with her
parents' gold to a river in order to drown her and keep her dowry, and there
reveals his actual intention. The would-be victim outwits her aggressor. and
turning the tables on him, speaks out her mind to him ("denouncer") while
pushing him in instead.
A lover ("offended"), cruelly assaulted by his true love's father and brothers
("offender"), strikes the father to death despite her plea to spare him. When free
to achieve their union, she ("denouncer") bemoans her gain of a husband al the
cost of her father's life. He is mortally wounded; she dies of grief and both are
buried together.
"The Twa Sisters" (Ch 10, 10*)
"Babylon" (Ch 14)
A girl ("offender") jealous of her sister's ("offended") success in love drowns
her (Ch 10) or 3uempts 10 do so (Ch 10*). Either the victim's ghost
("denouncer") reveals the crime (Ch 10) or she is rescued in time and happily
married (Ch 10*) to her rescuer (implicit "denouncer").
A robber ("offender") does not expect lO meet his three sisters on his
adventures. He kills two of them ("offended") and takes his life when the third
("denouncer") reveals their kinship.
"The Cmel MOlher" (Ch 20)
A mother ("offender") secretly murders and buries her newborn twins
("offended"). Two lillIe tx>ys ("denouncer") very unexpectedly face her with
her past treatment to them. They spell out her damnation to her.
"The Two Brothers" (Ch 49)
A tx>y ("offender") kills his younger brOlher ("offended") unwillingly while
bullying him into playing with him. The victim dies serene but instructs
("denouncer") the other to conceal the pathetic circumstances of his death from
their parents. The boy's responsibility is sometimes intensified by the victim's
blood, only flowing more abundantly when he tries to SlOp it.