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Motif

Cat's paw cut off: woman's hand missing. A man spends a night in a haunted mill, where he cuts off a cat's paw. In the morning the miller's wife has lost her hand. (Cf. D142, D621.1.1.)

Magic. · Disenchantment. · Person disenchanted. · view the constellation · filed as D702.1.1

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Scholars’ trail — 5references

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
  • JapaneseIkeda.
  • general *Taylor MPh XVII 59 n. 8
  • general Tobler 43
  • general Eng., Ire., U.S.: *Baughman
Within the index

Filed under Disenchantment with missing member. While in transformation a person loses a bodily member. When disenchanted, he still lacks the member.

Filed beside it
Hog's forefoot cut off: woman's hand missing
Travels with
Transformation: man to catMan by day; animal by night

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