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- Transformation: stone to pillow. D452.1.9
- Magic pillow. D1154.5
- Pillow causes magic sleep. (Cf. D1154.5.) D1364.11
- Horse's skull used as pillow. F874.2.1
- Magic bed and pillows as chastity test. Speak and reveal unchastity. (Cf. D1154.1.) H411.10
- What is softest? The hand. (In order to lie soft one places his hand between the head and the pillow.) H652.1
- Test of championship: sitting on pillow covering egg without breaking egg. H1568.1
- Boy thinks terrapin hatches from bedbug eggs. Small boy examines bedbug eggs under pillow every morning. One morning he finds a terrapin there. "I don't see how we raised this so quick." J1772.1.1
- Numskull finds that one feather makes a hard pillow, thinks a sackful would be unbearable. J2213.9
- Sleeping potion given to man who is to pass the night with a girl. (Sometimes magic pillow or magic sleeping card.) K675
- Treasure hidden in pillow under dead man's head. N522
- Patient laughs so at foolish diagnosis of sham physician that his abscess breaks and he gets well. She has been told to examine the floor around the patient's bed for signs of what he has been eating. She finds the patient surrounded with pillows: he has eaten too many pillows. N641
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