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- Beetle makes immoderate request; ant moderate: inverse awards. Creator hears wishes of animals. Beetle wants strong, noble appearance. Ant is modest. Beetle punished by being made to creep on ground. Ant is given own castle. (Cf. A2441.3.1.) A2232.3
- Dragons live beneath castle. B11.3.4
- Birds indicate the place where a town (castle) is to be built. B155.2.3
- Hedgehog builds castle. B191.5
- Enchanted castle (building). D6
- Castle magically made smaller. D491.5
- Castle disenchanted. D705.1
- Disenchantment by naked virgin undergoing frightful journey at midnight. She must come naked and alone on St. John's night between twelve and one, climb the castle walls, and enter the treasure chamber. D759.3
- Disenchantment if twelve men will not leave castle for a year. D759.4
- Disenchantment by following enchanted woman through lake to underwater castle. D759.5
- Disenchantment of enchanted (sunken) castle (town, inhabitants) by digging it out. D789.8
- Disenchantment by finding key to enchanted castle. D791.4
- Magic object found in magic castle. D846
- Golden cot found in magic castle. D846.1
- Magic castle. D1131
- Castle produced by magic. D1131.1
- Magic box containing castle. D1174.1
- Magic castle (palace) provides treasure. (Cf. D1131, F771.) D1457.1
- Magic castle shines from afar. (Cf. D1131, F771.) D1645.3
- King asleep in mountain will awake when his horse's shoes are worn down. Every seven years the horse goes around the castle. He must wear his half-inch silver shoes to thinness of cat's ear before the king awakes. D1960.2.1