μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Disenchantment by hiding skin (covering). When the enchanted person has temporarily removed the covering, it is stolen and the victim remains disenchanted until it is found.

Magic. · Disenchantment. · Disenchantment by removing (destroying) covering of enchanted person. · view the constellation · filed as D721.2

Filed across the traditions
  • Slavic Máchal 258
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • Chinese Graham
  • Surinam Alexander Lat. Am. 274
  • Indonesian DeVries's list No. 151
  • Africa (Basuto) Jacottet 146 No. 30, (Kaffir): Theal 38.
  • general *Type 400
  • general *Fb "sælhund". Scandinavian: Krappe Scandinavian Studies XVIII (1944) 156–162
Within the index

Filed under Disenchantment by removing skin (or covering).

Filed beside it
Disenchantment by flaying Disenchantment by destroying skin (covering) Disenchantment by holding temporarily disenchanted person Disenchantment from fruit (flower) by opening it
Carried in tale types

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