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- Animal wins wife for his master (Puss in Boots). B582.1.1
- Magic boots. D1065.1
- Boots produced by magic. D1065.1.1
- Magic boots render invisible (Cf. D1065.1.) D1361.38
- Seven-league boots. Boots with miraculous speed. (Cf. D1065.1.) D1521.1
- Boots carry owner on sea. (Cf. D1065.1.) D1524.2.1
- Water enters into giant's boots from above. F531.3.1.1
- Thief can cut soles off man's boots without detection as he walks along road. F676.2
- Riddle of the murdered lover. With what thinks, I drink; what sees, I carry; with what eats I walk. (Queen has cup made from skull of her murdered lover; ring with one of his eyes; she carries two of his teeth in her boots.) H805
- Task: plowing field of vipers. (Puts on iron boots.) H1188
- Large boot-supply for journey. Quest is to be so long that many boots are to be worn out. H1231
- An expensive joke. A shoemaker's apprentice greases boots as he would grease a fowl. The owner in anger returns and breaks a window. J1631
- Boots sent by telegraph. A peasant hangs boots and an accompanying letter on a telegraph wire, expecting them to reach the city. J1935.1
- Boots made by two cobblers. Trickster sends one of each pair back to be stretched, leaves town with pair of boots made up of the remaining boots. K233.3
- Trickster persuades tailor to leave his goods. Makes him believe he will get order to clothe fifty poor. Trickster makes away with goods. (Or tries on boots and makes away with them.) K351.1
- Detection of theft of bull escaped by putting boots on bull. K412
- Girl asks undesired lover to take off his boots. She pulls off one partway and escapes. K1227.4
- The judge's bad-luck bringing boots. The wealthy merchant becomes a beggar, due to the judge's boots he acquired through exchange (theft). N136
- Man claims prize (boots) as ruler of his house, but is afraid to carry the boots lest he soil his clean shirt and anger his wife. T252.4.1
- Lie: remarkable bouncing rubber boots (or the like). X1021.1
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