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- Goat feeds other animals from its body. Permits them to feed from it internally. B535.1
- Sea turns to ice to permit flight. D675
- Magic ring permits owner to learn person's secret thoughts. (Cf. D1076.) D1316.4
- Revelation of magic secret permits animal to be killed. (Cf. D1273.2.) D1445.1
- Magic object permits man to walk on water. D1524.1
- Medicine on feet permits man to walk on water. (Cf. D1241.) D1524.1.1
- Saint's bachall permits him to walk on sea. (Cf. D1277.) D1524.1.2
- Sand permits man to walk on water. (Cf. D935.1.) D1524.1.4
- Mountain opens and lets ship on wheels out, permitting magician's escape. D1552.4
- Loosing knots permits horse to return home. D1782.3.2
- Forgotten fiancée reawakens husband's memory by detaining lovers through magic. Heroine takes up residence near home of her forgetful husband. She is apparently going to permit a lover to sleep with her when she detains him by having him try to place some magic birds on their roost. They continue to fall down throughout the night. (Or the lover is left magically sticking to a calf's tail or other object.) The thwarted lover tells of his experience, and in this way the attention of the husband is gained. D2006.1.1
- Thread under dumb man's tongue cut. This permits him to speak. F954.1
- Devil in fold of knight's cloak. (Cf. G303.6.2.12.) Knight permits him to lodge there and accompany him to a tournament on condition that he leave him without harm upon request. G303.8.9.1
- Ogre deceived by feigned ignorance of hero. Hero must be shown how to get into oven (or the like). Ogre shows him and permits himself to be burnt. G526
- Horse will permit only certain man to ride him. H172.1
- Choice: small injustice permitted rather than to cause troubles of state. J221
- Solomon, permitted by God to make any request, asks wisdom. Granted wisdom and wealth. J231.1
- King buys spendthrift's bed. It must have been an extraordinary bed to permit a man with so many debts to sleep on it. J1081.1
- Robber's defense for stealing from rich. God will not permit them to enter heaven unless we take their ill-gotten goods from them. J1269.8
- The besieged women's dearest possession. (Women of Weinsberg.) Permitted to carry from the city their dearest possession, they take their husbands. J1545.4.1