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- 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
- Waking from sleep. D1978
- Waking from magic sleep by cutting off finger. D1978.1
- Waking from magic sleep by letting tear fall on sleeper. D1978.2
- Waking from magic sleep by removal of enchanting instrument. D1978.3
- Waking from magic sleep by kiss. D1978.5
- Long sleep, long waking. (Six months sleep followed by six months waking, or the like.) F564.3.1
- Barber's contest in shaving (without waking man). H504.2
- Waking contest. H1450.1
- The tailor's dream. A tailor dreams that at Judgment Day he sees a flag made up of all the pieces of cloth he has stolen Upon waking he asks his servants to warn him if they ever see him tempted to steal again. This happens. He replies, "The piece I am about to steal does not fit into the flag." J1401
- Waking contest won by deception. K51
- Waking contest won by giving opponent soporific. K51.1
- 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
- Maids must rise even earlier. They have killed the cock for waking them too early, but their mistress punishes them. K1636