Disenchantment by decapitation and replacement of head

Motif

Disenchantment by decapitation and replacement of head.

Magic. · Disenchantment. · Disenchantment by rough treatment. · view the constellation · filed as D711.1

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.

general Type 531
general Fb "hund" I 678a.

Within the index

Filed under Disenchantment by decapitation.

1 finer motif beneath it

Head transferred from one man to another; second man's head in first man's hand

Filed beside it

Disenchantment by cutting person in two Disenchantment from bird by cutting off bill Disenchantment from flower by breaking stalk Disenchantment from leaf by breaking it from tree Disenchantment from fruit by plucking it from tree

Travels with

Disenchantment by cutting off and reversing bodily members. (Cf. D711.1.)

wander