Magic sleep by lousing. Picking the lice from the head of an old person or an ogre is used to put him to sleep

Motif

Magic sleep by lousing. Picking the lice from the head of an old person or an ogre is used to put him to sleep.

Magic. · Magic powers and manifestations. · Manifestations of magic power. · Temporary magic characteristics. · Magic sleep. · view the constellation · filed as D1962.2

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Scholars’ trail — 8references

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.

IndiaThompson-Balys
JamaicaBeckwith MAFLS XVII 2 No. 1a
N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 326 n. 174
Eskimo (Greenland)Rasmussen I 364
Africa (Thonga)Junod 226.
general *Type 300
general Hartland Perseus III 211
general *Köhler-Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. VI 62 (to Gonzenbach No. 9). – English: Child V 487 s. v. "lousing"

Within the index

Filed under Means of inducing magic sleep. (Cf. D1364.)

Filed beside it

Magic sleep through curse Magic sleep by hairdressing. Head laid on another's lap Magic sleep by hypnotic suggestion Snakes put to sleep by music on harp. (Cf. B765, D1275.1.)Magic sleep from breaking tabu

Travels with

Dragon-fighter's magic sleep. While waiting for fight with dragon, hero falls into magic sleep. (Cf. D1962.2.)

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