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- Creation in covered vessel. Men (or animals) created in a basket or from a bundle, or from under a blanket. A1295
- Wolf-tail blankets. Wolves shelter man with their tails. B538.2
- Resuscitation by magic robe (blanket). (Cf. D1052.) E64.11
- Ghost pulls off blanket from sleeper. E544.2
- Task: embroidering blanket in one day. (Help from animals.) (Cf. B571.) H1093
- The short blanket must be patched. Weaver makes blanket shorter than ordered. Weaver ordered to add a piece to the blanket and then to receive full price. J1179.3
- Taking cold in effigy. A traitor is hanged in effigy naked. Later the citizens sue for peace and arrange a meeting. They find him in a hot room swathed with many blankets. He says that he has taken cold when the night wind blew on him as he hung naked from the gallows. J1628
- Bear mistaken for a floating log (blanket). J1761.9
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