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- Land of shades. Everything is done by unseen people. E482
- Journey to sky-world by riding unseen in supernatural wife's chariot. F66.1.1
- Unseen hands lave feet in otherworld. F171.7
- Pixies (little people unseen but often audible and occasionally caught). F200.1
- Dwarfs emigrate unseen but heard. (Cf. F455.5.1.) F451.9.6
- Forest where unseen sword cuts off heads of those trying to escape. F812.5
- Jinn unseen by anyone except person(s) he wishes should see him. G307.2.2
- Objects of quest found in deserted castle where hero is served by unseen hands. H1239.2
- The tall hog. Man boasts of hog so big that a man could not reach its back if he holds his hand as high as possible. A stranger buys the hog, sight-unseen. The seller takes him to the hog, shows the buyer that the hog's back is much below his hand when he holds it as high as possible. K196.2
- Wife washes husband's hair hiding his eyes while lover escapes unseen. K1516.7
- Wife has husband look for hole in pot she has bought, allowing lover to escape unseen. K1516.8
- Wife shows husband her milk-filled breasts and squirts milk in his eyes allowing lover to escape unseen. K1516.9
- Wife hides lover under bed. When husband comes in she drops candle and sends him out for another, allowing lover to escape unseen. K1521.4.1
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