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Motifs
- Magic object received in return for being shaved. D817.2
- The sound of shaving. An unskillful barber keeps cutting a man's face. A noise is heard. The man: "What is that?" Barber: "A smith shoeing horses." Man: "I thought it was someone being shaved." J1484
- Husband mistaken for lover in bed. Farmer has whiskers shaved off, hair cut short. He gets home late, slips into bed with his wife. She runs her hand over his face, says: "Young man, if you're goin' to do anything, you'd better be agittin' at it, 'cause Old Whiskers'll be here pretty soon." J1485.1
- Half price for half a shave. A man asks to be shaved at half price. The barber shaves one side. He must pay the other half for the rest of the shave. J1522.1
- Numskull wants to be shaved too. He sees another man being shaved and thinks that the man is having his ears cut off. He orders his wife to cut off his ears. J2426
- Creditor to wait till debtor is shaved. The debtor refuses to finish shaving. K238.1
- Importunate suitor has his head shaved and tarred and is put into a sack and returned to his men. K1218.1.7
- Rubbing shaved head of hero with cow dung as insult. P672.3
- Head shaved as punishment. Q488.2
- Beard shaved as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211, P672.) Q497