Trial by ordeal subverted by carrying magic object.
Magic. · Magic objects. · Function of magic objects. · Magic object rescues person. · view the constellation · filed as D1394.1
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Scholars’ trail — 1reference
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 *Kittredge Witchcraft 54, 404 nn. 227–229.