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Motif

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

Magic. · Disenchantment. · Person disenchanted. · view the constellation · filed as D702.1

Cited in the index
  • general Many of the references to E33 may refer to this motif.
Within the index

Filed under Partial disenchantment.

2 finer motifs beneath it
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.) Hog's forefoot cut off: woman's hand missing
Filed beside it
Person restored to human form retains certain animal features

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