Magic sleep by hairdressing. Head laid on another's lap

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Magic sleep by hairdressing. Head laid on another's lap.

Magic. · Magic powers and manifestations. · Manifestations of magic power. · Temporary magic characteristics. · Magic sleep. · view the constellation · filed as D1962.3

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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
general *Cox Cinderella 498 n. 34
general MacCulloch Childhood 31
general N. Am. Indian (Dakota): Schoolcraft Hiawatha 184.

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

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Magic sleep brought on by combing hero's hair lasts six months

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Magic sleep through curse 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 sleep by hypnotic suggestion Snakes put to sleep by music on harp. (Cf. B765, D1275.1.)Magic sleep from breaking tabu

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