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- Ghostly chair in cellar jumps up and down on three legs, points with fourth at spot on floor. Witnesses dig up body from under floor. E539.4.1
- Familiar's abode is magician's cellar. G225.0.5
- Task: drinking wine – cellar empty. H1142.1
- Cheater put out of countenance by raising alarm. Wine seller carries water into his cellar. Man raises alarm pretending that he thought the house must be afire. J1216
- Distress over imagined troubles of unborn child. (Clever Else.) Girl sent to cellar to get wine to serve the suitor begins weeping over the troubles of the child which she might have if she married the suitor. Her parents join her. Meanwhile the suitor leaves. J2063
- Fool lets wine run in the cellar. He (she) falls into a study (or chases a dog) while the spigot is open. J2176
- Entrance into wine cellar by removing lock during absence of mother. K317.2
- Half a grain. Trickster drops half a grain into grain cellar then demands half of the grain supply. K446.1
- Wolf overeats in the cellar (smokehouse). Cannot escape through the entrance hole. K1022.1
- Bluff: the rare vintages. Host serves many rare vintages and gets a reputation for his wine cellar. But there is only a small jug of each vintage. K1786
- Treasure in cellar of ruined house. N511.1.6
- Penance: being locked in cellar (well) with key thrown into water. Q544
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