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- Why the gorilla and chimpanzee have hair all over the body. Punishment for not guarding possessions at creation. A2322.6
- Form of treasure-guarding ghost. E291.2
- Blades of corn grow through hair of saint as reward for guarding cornkiln. F1099.4.1
- Suitor task: killing lion guarding girl. H335.3.2
- Suitor task: to kill treasure-guarding snake lying around the princess's chamber. H335.3.4
- Task: guarding. H1199.17
- Task: guarding palace at night that no one can enter or leave. H1199.17.1
- Task: guarding six sisters-in-law so that they do not joke or talk to anyone. H1199.17.2
- Guarding chickens from the fox. Numskull ties their beaks and weights them down in the river with stones. J2125
- Repentant thief pretends to have found stolen cow. Upbraids owner for not guarding her better. K416
- Fox pretends to be guarding the sky and watching the earth. K1251.1.1
- Guarding the door. It is lifted off and carried away. K1413
- Matron of Ephesus. (Vidua.) A woman mourns night and day by her husband's grave. A knight guarding a hanged man is about to lose his life because of the corpse he has stolen from the gallows. The matron offers him her love and substitutes her husband's corpse on the gallows so that the knight can escape. K2213.1
- Faithful servant guarding master's wife from danger falsely condemned for betraying his master. N342.1
- Faithful son guarding his father from monster falsely accused by stepmother. N342.1.1