Person is imprisoned in a tree-hollow or inside a rock and is released by somebody who makes a hole from outside

Hero turns into stag or creates a stag to charge his kinsman who sent hi into a trap

Brothers of a man's wife hate him and maroon on an islet

A lonely woman with her daughter are the only survivors after enemies' attack. The woman rejects a series of animal-persons who come to ask her daughter in marriage but accept a sky-person for her son-in-law. Children of the sky-person and woman's daughter revenge on the enemies

A woman is impregnated by two different males and gives birth to twin sons who have different fathers

Brothers turn into cooking pots or griddles which are put on fire. Only the eldest is strong enough to stand this trial

Mother dies when her sons embrace or push her

When hero returns and finds his mother being tormented during his absence, he burns the tormentors producing fire and heat by magic

When hero returns, he finds his mother being tormented during his absence and transforms her (and usually himself) into a certain bird

Antagonist makes a girl or a woman his or her slave. The slave's brothers or sons secretly come to her, kill for her some small game. Woman tries to pursue the antagonist that she herself killed the game