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- Magic trousers (breeches). D1055
- Magic trousers render invulnerable. (Cf. D1055.) D1344.9.2
- Magic trousers render invisible. (Cf. D1055.) D1361.36
- Magic trousers conquer enemy. Hero spreads them in air and balls of fire fall from them on enemy. (Cf. D1055.) D1400.1.1
- Magic trousers make river boil. (Cf. D1055.) D1549.3.3
- Boastful coward frightened when he sees strong adversaries. Hides in trousers of plowman who fights the men. J2631
- Abbess puts priest's trousers on her head. Suddenly called up while abed with the priest, she thinks to put on her coif. Discomfited by nuns whom she has denounced for incontinence. K1273
- Friar's trousers on adulteress's bed: relic to cure sickness. The husband is duped into believing that the friar has come to visit the sick. K1526
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