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- Magic potion. D1242.2
- Sleeping potion: drink causes magic sleep. (Cf. D1040, D1242.2, D1364.12.) D1364.7
- Magic potion cures leprosy. (Cf. D1242.2.) D1502.4.1
- Magic potion heals wounds. (Cf. D1242.2.) D1503.13
- Magic potion mixed with brains of deceitful person as cure for snakebite. (Cf. D1242.2.) D1515.4.6
- Suitor test: to consort with princess without sleeping. Suitors are given sleeping potion. H347
- Pseudo-magic potion: to induce pregnancy. Found to contain snake's eggs. K115.3
- Compassionate executioner: sleeping potion supplied instead of poison. K512.4
- Sleeping potion given to man who is to pass the night with a girl. (Sometimes magic pillow or magic sleeping card.) K675
- Paramour unwittingly drinks sleeping potion. Is thought dead and placed in a chest. Chest is stolen. When he escapes he is accused of being a robber. He is saved by his mistress's maid who explains all, transferring the role played by her mistress to herself. K675.1
- King given sleeping potion and then beheaded in his bed by his wife. K873.1
- Sleeping potion substituted for poison. (Cf. K2111.1.) K1852
- False Paradise. (The Old Man of the Mountain.) Potion is given to dupes who are led into what they believe is Paradise. They are then forced to rob and kill to regain admittance through death. K1889.3
- Woman makes vain overtures to stepson and falsely accuses him of murder. She tries to poison him but her own son accidentally takes the beverage and apparently dies. Plot is revealed when doctor states that he had substituted sleeping potion for the poison. K2111.1
- Boy accidentally drinks "poison" intended for his stepbrother. Doctor had substituted sleeping potion for the requested poison. N332.4
- Newcomers forced to pass the night with ruling princess. Given sleeping potion. Goods confiscated for failure to consummate marriage. P616
- Man sends his daughter the heart of her lover. She pours poison over it and drinks the potion. Q478.1.1
- "Poisoned" woman revives. Husband tries to poison wife. Student substitutes sleeping potion for poison, takes her from the tomb. When she revives he claims her as his own. T37.0.1
- Disappointed lover buys poison for girl. Druggist substitutes sleeping potion. Girl revives and is reconciled. T93.4
- Affianced wife of chieftain falls in love with another man at betrothal feast, drugs the company with sleeping potion, and forces man of her choice to elope with her. T157