The constellation
G259 Witch recognition – miscellaneous methods
A constellation is one motif’s neighborhood in the record — the story-shapes filed around it, the tale types that carry it, and the texts where it is witnessed, every line a receipted link. Click a motif to travel. Click a text to read it. The entry · wander
● motif
● tale type
● on the shelf
● attested
The same sky, in words
filed under
- Recognition of witches · G250 entry
beneath it
- Witch recognized by looking in or through magic object · G259.1 entry
- Witch recognized by odor. (Cf. G303.4.8.1, G303.6.3.4.) · G259.2 entry
- Witch may be recognized by absence of bleeding when she is pricked with pins · G259.3 entry
- Witch may be recognized after death by great weight of corpse. (Cf. E400.) · G259.4 entry
- Witch stretches out her hand and brings water from ocean without getting out of her bed; is recognized · G259.5 entry