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• Moon's phases caused by its being put in box. (Cf. A754). When it is closed up in the box, it is dark; when taken out of the box, light. A755.1
• Rabbit (frog) eats seed-grain from fields: nose closed during sowing season. (Cf. A2335.2.4.) A2238.1
• Why hare's nose is closed during sowing season. (Cf. A2238.1.) A2335.2.4
• Why animal's mouth is closed. A2341.3
• Why serpent's mouth is closed. A2341.3.1
• Tabu: to enter sacred places closed to the female sex. (Cf. C51.1.2.) C51.1.10
• Trail magically closed. D2089.9
• Enemy magically enclosed within walls. D2091.16
• Magic journey with closed eyes. Person must not open eyes while on the journey. (Cf. C300.) D2121.2
• Power to go through closed doors. D2121.12
• Demon enclosed in bottle. D2177.1
• The Vanishing Hitchhiker. Ghost of young woman asks for ride in automobile, disappears from closed car without the driver's knowledge, after giving him address to which she wishes to be taken. Driver asks person at address about the rider, finds she has been dead for some time. (Often driver finds that ghost has made similar attempts to return, usually on anniversary of death in automobile accident. Often ghost leaves some item such as a scarf or a traveling bag in car.) E332.3.3.1
• Wild hunt avoided by keeping in house with windows closed. (Cf. E501.14.6.) E501.17.5.3
• Fairy harper enclosed in yew-tree. F386.1.1
• Dwarf cave closed by iron doors. F451.4.3.1
• Dwarfs' rock closed by rock-door. F451.4.3.1.1
• Giant's presents cease when source is disclosed. (Cf. F348.5.) F531.5.6.3
• Saint passes through closed doors. F694
• Coat so light it can be concealed in closed palms of hand. F821.2.1
• Series of enclosed coffins. Coffins of gold, silver, copper, iron, lead, and wood, each inside the other. (Cf. F852.1.1.) F852.4
• Gaping wound closed with slab of wood. F959.3.2
• Apertures of animals' bodies closed up in certain land. F988.3
• Recognition by means of ring enclosed in wound. H61.3
• Thief detected by psalter and key. Closed Bible with key inside at magic text loosely held by diviner and client. Name of suspected thief on end of key. As verse is spoken, if name is that of thief, book and key will turn around. H251.3.2
• Test of resourcefulness: finding how many people are in dark closed room. Fills room with evil smell; men call each other by name and disclose number. H506.2
• Deer belled and enclosed like goats jump fence and escape. J1904.2.2
• Contest with magician in bringing grain out of closed bamboo: trickster brings culm-borers to make holes. K69.1
• Underground passage gives entrance to closed chamber. K315.0.1
• Cock persuaded to crow with closed eyes. Seized. K721
• Dupe lured into hole and entrance closed. K737.1
• Hoodwinked dancers. A trickster induces ducks to dance with closed eyes and kills them. K826
• Secret of vulnerability disclosed by hero's wife. K2213.4.1
• Secret of unique vulnerability disclosed. N476
• Secret of vulnerability voluntarily disclosed. N476.1
• Penance: staying for ten months rooted to one spot, with eyes closed, while birds build nests in one's hair. Q541.5
• Demon enclosed in bottle released. R181
• Cumulative tale: bird who seeks carpenter to release young caught in closed tree. Beetle bites calf, calf bites cow, cow hoofs carpenter, carpenter beats wife, hunters save carpenter's cow, carpenter releases birds. Z49.7
• Death enclosed in a bottle. Z111.1