Guessing name of supernatural creature gives power over him. (Tom-Tit-Tot)

Motif

Guessing name of supernatural creature gives power over him. (Tom-Tit-Tot).

Tabu. · Speaking tabu. · Name tabu. · view the constellation · filed as C432.1

Scholars’ trail — 6references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

general *Type 500
general BP I 495
general *Clodd Tom-Tit-Tot
general Köhler-Bolte I 109
general *Fb "gjætte" I 452
general Henne-am Rhyn 2d ed. No. 618. – Icelandic: Arnason Legends of Iceland (Powell tr.) I 49, *Boberg.

Within the index

Filed under Tabu: uttering name of supernatural creature.

Travels with

Dwarf suitor desists when unwilling maiden guesses his name. (Cf. C432.1.)

Carried in tale types

The Name of the Supernatural Helper · ATU 5006 recorded variants

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