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- Sun shut up in pit. A721.0.2
- Sun at night closes doors. In evening goes home and shuts doors and windows. A722.4
- Why fowls never shut their doors at night. A2433.4.6
- Shut in with elephants, blackbird orders ants to burrow themselves into the elephants' brains. B524.1.8
- Magic shuttle. D1185
- Charm chanted standing on one foot with one eye shut, etc. D1273.0.4
- Magic shuttle makes road. (Cf. D1185.) D1484.1
- Magic shuttle makes carpet. (Cf. D1185.) D1485.1
- Gate of temple opens and shuts by magic. (Cf. D1131.) D1557.4
- Loom made of woman's breasts with vagina as shuttle. F856.1
- Weaver married to princess betrays his identity when he unconsciously waves his hands as though he were weaving and asks for his shuttle. H38.2.4.1
- Task: making boat from splinters of a spindle and shuttle. H1022.7
- Witness says that dust storm blew and shut his eyes so that he did not see. J1158.1
- How he looks in his sleep. A man stands before mirror with his eyes shut to see how he looks in his sleep. J1936
- Shepherd shuts up the lion in the yard with the live-stock. He hopes to capture the lion, but loses all his beasts. J2172.2
- How blind men get about. Fool experiments with shut eyes and gets lost. J2387
- Crocodile persuaded to open his mouth. When he does, he shuts his eyes automatically and monkey escapes. K561.3
- Cuckolded man shuts wife's paramour in chest and lies on the chest with latter's wife. K1566
- Husband surprises wife and paramour. Rebukes them for not shutting the door. K1569.2
- Sham physician: making the girl grow up. A king wants his daughter to grow up quickly. The physician says that he must send away for the medicine; meantime she must be shut up. After several years they show her to the king. She has grown. K1955.5
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