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

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

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Scholars’ trail — 8references

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.

SlavicMáchal 258
IndiaThompson-Balys
ChineseGraham
SurinamAlexander Lat. Am. 274
IndonesianDeVries'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

The Man on a Quest for his Lost Wife · ATU 40036 recorded variants

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