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Motifs
- Sun at night closes doors. In evening goes home and shuts doors and windows. A722.4
- Magic object miraculously opens and closes. D1550
- Mountain pass magically closes. D1552.3
- Gate or wall opens and closes, letting saint through. (Cf. D1554.) D1552.6
- Hill opens and closes to let fugitives pass. (Cf. D938.1.) D1552.8
- Magic forest opens and closes for hero to pass. (Cf. D941.) D1554
- Wraith opens and closes door. E723.7.3
- Ordeal by holy water. If simpleton closes his eyes to holy water he is possessed; if he laughs he is merely an idiot. H222.2
- King: What is your father doing? Youth: Makes an evil greater. (Closes up a path; this causes another to be opened.) H583.2.1
- Bee rests on water lily which closes over it at night and kills it. J2137.3
- Fool discloses woman's adultery; lover kills him. J2365
- Deceptive bargain: as much grain as will go in a rope. Trickster encloses whole crop. K174.1
- Deception into magic bag which closes on prisoner. K711.1
- The faithless wife asks her gullible husband how he would act if he were blind. The husband closes his eyes; meanwhile the lover escapes. K1516.6
- Poor peasant closes the eyes in order not to see guest eat: later suicide. P336.3
- Idol cracks open to grant refuge to fugitive in answer to prayer; then closes again. R325.2
- Apparently happy woman discloses the skeleton of her slain paramour. U115.1
- The breathing tree. Hunter cuts down tree packed full of animals. The tree is so full of animals that a crack in tree opens as animals inhale, closes when they exhale. X1116