Disenchantment when superhuman task is finished. Enchanted person appears every seven years in human form and puts one stitch in a smock. When it is finished, she will be delivered — Mythoi

Motif

Disenchantment when superhuman task is finished. Enchanted person appears every seven years in human form and puts one stitch in a smock. When it is finished, she will be delivered.

Magic. · Disenchantment. · Attendant circumstances of disenchantment. · view the constellation · filed as D791.1.2

Cited in the index

general Hartland Science 240.

Within the index

Filed under Disenchantment at end of specified time.

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Disenchantment at end of seven years The deliverer in the cradle. Enchanted person can be delivered by child rocked in a cradle made from an oak sapling after it has grown great Disenchantment at end of two hundred years Disenchantment at end of nine hundred years Disenchantment possible at the end of seven hundred years Disenchantment at cock crow Disenchantment at midnight after owl hoots three times

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

How many seconds in eternity? A bird carries a grain of sand from a mountain each century; when the whole mountain is gone, the first second of eternity has passed. (Cf. D791.1.2, H1583, X950.2, Z61.)

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