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- Fairy gains entrance to locked city. D2088.1
- Locked doors open at touch of ghosts. E599.11
- Extraordinary wind bursts open locked doors of church to show that dead pope is worthy of burial there. [Inadvertant duplication of Q147.2.] F963.3
- Witch escapes from locked room. G288
- Task: securing dishes which have been locked up in vault. H1199.15
- Two monks renew their appetites. Entertained by a lord, they say that they are going to certain waters to recover their appetites. They are taken to a chamber and locked in for a day They recover their appetites without further journeying. (Cf. K1955.1.1.) J1606
- Wolf almost locked up in the stable by the shepherd. The dog: "What good to lock us up from the wolf when he is with us?" J2172.2.1
- Wolf locked up with the sheep. J2172.2.2
- Fool locked in dark room made to believe that it is continuous night. J2332
- Tiger persuaded to walk into house: locked in. K737.2
- Suitor locked in pigsty. K1218.2
- Filling the pen. Told to fill locked pen trickster chops up wagon and mules and throws them in. K1427
- The husband locked out. An adulteress returns home late at night and her husband refuses to admit her. She threatens to throw herself into the well. The husband goes after her. She enters the house and bars him out. K1511
- The animal in the chest. The husband has locked the surprised paramour in a chest while he fetches his family as witness of his wife's unfaithfulness. She frees the lover, substitutes an animal, and discountenances the husband. (Cf. K1542, K1555, K1566, K1574.) K1515
- Poor man presented rich robe by emperor is locked up as a thief. N347.5
- Penance: being locked in cellar (well) with key thrown into water. Q544
- Smokers in otherworld are locked in smoky rooms. Q569.5
- Slandered wife is locked in tower for forty days. If no champion appears, she is to be burned. Former suitor rescues her. R41.2.1
- Girl locked up in order to postpone wedding. R53.3
- Hero locked up while his father is murdered. R54
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