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- Wooden circles that were the sun and moon animated after human sacrifice of blood. A714.8
- Moon has wooden weapons, therefore vulnerable. A759.1
- Escape from deluge in wooden cask (drum). A1021.0.2
- Hole of winds: stopper destroyed. The hole is stopped with a wooden stopper, which is destroyed. The country dries up. A1122.1
- Mankind from vivified wooden image. (Cf. A1241.3, A1245.2) A1252.1
- Transformation to wooden image for breaking tabu. C961.3.1
- Transformation: silver dish becomes wooden. D475.3.5
- Magic horse (wooden) made by carpenter. D853.1
- Magic wooden fish attracts live fish to fisherman's net. (Cf. D1268.) D1444.1.2
- Magic boat is rowed by two wooden figures as soon as it is put on water. (Cf. D1524, D1620.) D1523.2.8
- City populated by wooden automata. D1628
- Contest between carpenter and son to race wooden horses they had both made. D1719.1.4
- Fire turns aside and refuses to catch hold of holy garments, wooden altars and similar sacred things. D2158.1.3.2
- Fairies pinch plowboy who breaks their wooden oven as he plows. F361.17.3
- Father given carved wooden image in lieu of son stolen by dwarfs. F451.5.2.3.1
- Dwarf rides through air on wooden horse. F451.6.2.2
- Marvelous sensitiveness: fainting from noise of wooden pestle and mortar. F647.8
- King makes a wooden peacock machine for his son. F675.1
- Wooden coat. F821.1.4
- Wooden lizard used to kill evil spirits. F839.7
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