Beautification by decapitation and replacement of head

Motif

Beautification by decapitation and replacement of head.

Magic. · Magic powers and manifestations. · Manifestations of magic power. · Lasting magic qualities. · Magic beautification. · view the constellation · filed as D1865.1

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

Eskimo (Bering Strait)Nelson RBAE XVIII 503.
general *Type 531. Italian Novella: Rotunda

Within the index

Filed under Beautification by death and resuscitation.

Filed beside it

Beautification by boiling and resuscitation Face of pious girl becomes angelic at death

Carried in tale types

The Clever Horse (previously Ferdinand the True and Ferdinand the False) · ATU 531288 recorded variants

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