μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

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.

Magic. · Disenchantment. · Attendant circumstances of disenchantment. · view the constellation · filed as D791.1.3

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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 **Ranke Der Erlöser in der Wiege
  • general Hartland Science 244f
  • general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 80.
Within the index

Filed under Disenchantment at end of specified time.

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Disenchantment at end of seven yearsDisenchantment 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 deliveredDisenchantment at end of two hundred yearsDisenchantment at end of nine hundred yearsDisenchantment possible at the end of seven hundred yearsDisenchantment at cock crowDisenchantment at midnight after owl hoots three times
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