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- Sun-snarer: burnt mantle. A boy is angered because the sun burned his mantle. He makes a snare and catches the sun and delays him so that everything is burning up. A mouse finally gnaws the snare in two. A728.1
- Night caused by deity wrapping himself in dark mantle. A1174.4
- Origin of custom of wearing mantles. A1683.3
- Transformation to likeness of another by sleeping with arms about him under the same mantle. D592
- Magic mantle changes color hourly. D682.4.1
- Magic mantle (cloak). D1053
- Magic mantle provides treasure. (Cf. D1053.) D1455.1
- Magic wishing-cloak (mantle). (Cf. D1053.) D1470.1.11
- Wind carried in mantle. (Cf. D1053.) D1543.6
- Mantle ever new. (Cf. D1053.) D1652.12
- Extraordinarily beautiful mantle. None surpasses it. F821.4
- Recognition by gold wrapped in mantle. H91.2
- Mantle as chastity test. Will not fit unchaste woman. (Cf. D1053.) H411.7
- Task: weaving mantle from wool of a single sheep. H1022.4.2
- The drunken officer's stolen mantle. Thief confronted by the officer tells all the circumstances of the drunkenness (with many shameful additions). The officer denies the ownership. J1211.2.1
- Land grant: as much land as can be covered by saint's mantle. K185.4.2
- Man leaves mantle so that only mantle is hit. K525.5
- Escape under mantle of invisibility. K532
- Ascetic cleric sleeps (prays) with wet sheet (mantle) about him. V462.5.1.2