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Why did someone lump all of the variants? The examples were split into sections, and lumping them indiscriminately means the reader has no idea whether it's a Murphy Bed, hammock, folding lawnchair, etc. Could someone tweak the examples to clarify?
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Furthermore, we're getting example drift between this trope and Bear Trap Bed.
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In Million Dollar Mystery, Eddie Deezen wrestles predictably with a Murphy bed.
In the German children's book "Der gefrorene Prinz" (the frozen prince) by Christine Nöstlinger, the eponymous prince meets a girl whose bed is sentient—and man-eating: it swallows everyone who sits on a certain spot of its mattress and gets stronger (and ever hungrier) in the process. The girl has a kind of pact with it and feeds it (among others) her parents so they will leave her alone and don't make her get up. What she gets for tricking people into sitting on the aforementioned spot is the protection and especially the companionship of the bed—she gets kind of addicted to it.
Would this fit? And can anyone confirm that the title of the book is correct? It's been years since I've read it. Is there an English translation?
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