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Motif

Three redeeming kisses. (Die weisse Frau.) A woman can be disenchanted from animal form if man will kiss her three times, each time when she is in the form of a different terrifying animal.

Magic. · Disenchantment. · Disenchantment by submission. · view the constellation · filed as D735.2

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

  • LithuanianBalys Index No. 3592.
  • general Tobler 69
  • general **M. Waehler Die weisse Frau (Erfurt 1931)
  • general *Hdwb. d. Abergl. II 928. – Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 298 No. 3, 307 No. 24, 314 No. 103, 322 No. 93, 325 No. 3, 329 No. 32
Within the index

Filed under Disenchantment by kiss.

Filed beside it
Beauty and the beast. Disenchantment of animal by being kissed by woman (man)Disenchantment from tree form by embrace of loverDisenchantment by enduring animal's embrace

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