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- Snake crawls from sleeper's mouth. B765.5
- Disenchantment by proper person waking from magic sleep. The enchanted person appears three times and if the sleeper does not wake by the third time the enchantment must last. D762
- Magic object does not awaken sleepers. D1575
- Hand-of-glory does not awaken sleepers. The hand is lighted as a candle. D1575.1
- Seven sleepers. (Rip Van Winkle.) Magic sleep extending over many years. D1960.1
- Mighty sleeper. D1960.1.1
- Waking from magic sleep by letting tear fall on sleeper. D1978.2
- Ghost pulls bedclothing from sleeper. E279.3
- Ghostly horse enters house and puts hoofs on breast of sleeper. E281.2
- Ghost pulls off blanket from sleeper. E544.2
- Sleeper not to be awakened, since soul is absent. E721.1.1
- Soul of sleeper prevented from returning to his body. E721.1.2
- Soul of sleeper prevented from returning when it is captured in animal form. E721.1.2.1
- Soul of sleeper prevented from returning by moving the sleeper's body. (Cf E431.7.2.1.) E721.1.2.2
- Soul of sleeper prevented from returning by burning the body. E721.1.2.3
- Soul of sleeper prevented from returning to his body when soul as bee leaves body and enters hole in wall beside which he is sleeping. (Cf. E734.2.) E721.1.2.4
- Evil spirit harpoons sleepers. F402.1.11.3
- Numskull thief thinks snoring sleeper is asking for food. J1812.5.1
- The sleeper answers for the dead man. A man falls asleep by a gallows. A company of wags come and invite the dead man on the gallows to accompany them. The sleeper awakes with a start and says, "I'll come at once." The wags flee in terror. J2618
- Contest in seeing sunrise first: sleeper wins. One keeps awake, the other sleeps. The first thinks that he sees the sun and cries out prematurely, thus waking the other, who wins. K52.2
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