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- Forbidden door. All doors may be entered except one. C611.1
- Wild huntsman's dog cannot be dislodged from house it has entered. E501.15.6.5
- Fairyland under hollow knoll. Usually entered under roots of trees. F211
- Fairyland entered through well. F212.1
- Valley from which no false lover can escape until it has been entered by a true lover. H421.1
- Riddle: what did Christ do in his 30th year? Answer: entered into his thirty-first. (Cf. H865.) H826
- Imagined penance for imagined sin. A penitent confesses that a plan to sin had entered his mind. Priest tells him that the thought is as good as the deed. Assesses four florins as penance. Penitent says that he had only had it in his mind to give the florins; he must take the thought for the deed. J1551.2
- Heaven entered by a trick. K2371.1
- Heaven entered by trick: permission to pick up cap. Trickster throws a cap or leather apron inside the gate. K2371.1.1
- Heaven entered by trick: demanding back the charity gift. The trickster demands of Peter an article which he has given in charity. He then sits on it as his own property within the gates. K2371.1.2
- Heaven entered by trick: "wishing sack" thrown in. Trickster wishes himself in the sack. K2371.1.3
- Heaven entered by trick: sitting on Peter's chair. K2371.1.4
- Heaven entered by trick: slipping in along with holy person. K2371.1.5
- Heaven entered by trick: angel tricked by drink into telling woman how to enter. K2371.1.6
- Saint who entered house of ill fame to reform inmates accused of going with evil intent. N347.2