Considering the simplicity of the equation "an eye for an eye", those who indulge in vengeance have found a surprisingly varied number of ways to deliver it.

From the basic table turning of an imprisoned wife through the posthumous brutality of an enlightened courtesan and the terrifying haunting of Herne The Hunter, to the complexities of a reprisal engineered by a quail on an elephant using a fly and a frog.

Learn how to get your own back in style with a selection of backstabbing folk tales from around the world.