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- Origin of custom of shaving. A1597.2
- Tabu: shaving. C722.0.1
- Transformation: shavings to gold. D475.1.2
- Disenchantment by shaving. D718
- Bearded woman ghost laid by shaving her. E451.7
- Wild huntsman repays with leaves (shavings) that turn to gold. E501.15.4
- Giant insults hero by shaving his head and smearing it with cow dung. F531.5.12
- Barber's contest in shaving (without waking man). H504.2
- Task: weaving a silk shirt from hair; countertask: making a loom from shavings. (Cf. H951.) H1021.6.1
- 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
- Squaring accounts by shaving the wife. A numskull has paid twice the regular amount for a shave. The barber shaves the wife. J2082
- Creditor to wait till debtor is shaved. The debtor refuses to finish shaving. K238.1
- Disguise by shaving off beard so as to escape. K521.2.1
- Fatal game: shaving necks. Dupe's head cut off. K858
- Raised treasure turns into charcoal (shavings). If one takes it along it will turn back into gold. N558
- Shavings of spear which killed king cast into cataract. P16.5
- Punishment: shaving head and covering with tar and driving forth on back of donkey to sound of drum. Stranger thinks he is being honored. Q473.5.1