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- Willow shelters Holy Family: becomes weeping willow. (Cf. A2681.1.) A2632.1
- Hazel gives Virgin Mary shelter. Blessed. A2711.4.1
- Animals grateful for shelter. B393
- Animals nourish men. Provide food, shelter, or other necessities. B530
- Animals provide shelter. B538
- Bird gives shelter with wings. (Cf. B450.) B538.1
- Wolf-tail blankets. Wolves shelter man with their tails. B538.2
- Magic object acquired by tricking devil. Man gets shelter in storm; devil gets wet. Devil gives man magic object in return for information as to how he kept dry. D834
- Tree opens its trunk to give shelter to abandoned girls. (Cf. D950.) D1556.2
- Beard shelters fifty men from rain. F545.1.4
- The devil appears during thunderstorm, seeking shelter among people. G303.6.3.1.1
- Man helps traveler and makes riddling remarks. Gives him food, shares his coat in rain, and carries him over stream. Reproaches him with traveling without mother, house, or bridge (nourishment, shelter, or horse). H586.1
- Enigmatic statement: roof has no eaves. (Else it would give the beggar shelter.) H594.1
- Forethought in provision for shelter. J740
- Build shelter for the whole year. J741
- Person holds hat just outside shelter; enemies shoot at it, either giving away their position or putting themselves at a disadvantage in having to reload. K631.3
- Curse: lack of food, shelter, good company. M443.1
- Wounded hero finds shelter and is cured in peasant's house. P411.3
- Wife hides husband's unfaithfulness from emperor and even shelters his mistress. T222
- Woman shelters son's murderer out of charity. W15