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- Origin of custom of wearing a beard. A1597
- Origin of custom of wearing mantles. A1683.3
- Tabu: wearing shoes at shrine. C51.1.15
- Tabu: wearing unauthorized sacred robe (jewel). C51.2.1
- Tabu: false and profane swearing of oath. C94.2
- Tabu: wearing satin. C878.1
- Tabu: wearing silk. C878.2
- Magic cloth betrays thief. Calls out, telling who is wearing it. D1318.8.1
- Magic strength obtained by wearing blue ribbon. D1835.4
- Ghost cannot harm person wearing a cross. E434.8.1
- Wearing flowers on one's ears protects from fairies. F384.4
- Garments grow with man wearing them. F821.9
- Wearing shoes only when crossing river. F1015.2
- Bocca della Verità. Person swearing oath places hand in mouth of image. If oath is false the hand is bitten off. H251.1
- Suitor test: correct wearing of clothes. H312.6
- Bride test: wearing deceased wife's clothes. H363.1
- Bride test: wearing deceased wife's ring. H363.2
- "Always wear new shoes." (Walk the fields bare-footed, wearing your shoes only when nearing the town.) H588.13
- Rich Brahmin wearing poor clothing is treated as a beggar. J1072.2
- Witness claims the borrowed coat: discredited. Trickster summoned to court on Jew's complaint refuses to go unless he has a new coat: Jew lends him his. In court the trickster says that the Jew is a liar: "He will even claim that I am wearing his coat." The Jew does so and no one believes him. J1151.2