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Motifs — first 20 of 24
- Why cock wakes man in morning. A2489.1
- Magic bird's song. Brings joy and oblivion for many years. Wakes the dead. B172.2
- Faithful horse pushes sleep thorn out of its master's head, so that he awakes. B511.3
- Ring wakes from magic sleep. (Cf. D1076.) D1364.0.1
- Singing tree when touched wakes master. (Cf. D950, D1615.1.) D1612.6.1
- King asleep in mountain will awake when his horse's shoes are worn down. Every seven years the horse goes around the castle. He must wear his half-inch silver shoes to thinness of cat's ear before the king awakes. D1960.2.1
- Three-fold magic sleep. Husband (lover) put to sleep by false bride. Only on the third night (the last chance) he wakes. D1971
- Wound received in dream. Still there when person wakes. F1068.2
- The greedy dreamer. He dreams that he receives nine coins. He demands ten. He wakes and finds that he has dreamed. He is willing to accept the nine. J1473
- Fool wakes with sleeping mat over head and thinks it is still night. J1819.3
- Air-castle: to sell hide of sleeping deer. In his excitement he wakes the deer, who runs off. J2061.3
- Master asked to help in the theft. The fool sent in by thieves is told to bring out the heaviest thing. As this is a grain-grinder and he cannot carry it, he wakes the master of the house to help him. J2136.5.6.1
- Curiosity satisfied: riding the ox's horns. As his ox, who has enormous horns, is asleep, the fool gets on the horns. The ox wakes and throws him off. When he comes to his senses, the fool says, "I had a hard time, but my curiosity is satisfied." J2375
- Afraid of his knees. A man awakes with his knees in the air. He thinks the knees are a lion and splits them with his axe. J2617
- 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
- Plowing contest won by deception: hare exchanged for horse. God and the devil contest in plowing. The devil plows with a horse, God with a hare. While the devil is asleep, God takes the devil's horse and plows the field. When he wakes, the devil thinks the hare has plowed so much and gladly trades his horse for the hare. K41.1
- Robber cheated by substitution. Spending the night in company with a suspicious-looking stranger, the man does not go to sleep, but leaves his clothes in bed and waits to see what will happen. When the stranger wakes up in the night, he stabs at his sleeping companion, who shoots him down. (Cf. K525.1.) K437.1
- Nut falls and wakes man about to be bitten by snake. N652
- Sleeping king abducted by fairies wakes when his foot touches water. They free him. N661
- During rainy spring, farmer wishes that Lord would sleep till harvest time. Farmer himself sleeps until all neighbors have finished harvesting. When he wakes, he finds his crops ruined. (Cf. Q235.) Q585.3