Fairies remove hunchback's hump (or replace it)

Motif

Fairies remove hunchback's hump (or replace it).

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Fairies and elves. · Fairies and mortals. · Gifts from fairies. · view the constellation · filed as F344.1

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Scholars’ trail — 7references

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.

BretonSébillot Incidents s. v. "bossu"
general *Type 503
general BP III 324ff.
general RTP I 129, 186, III 582, V 690, VIII 549, IX 285, X 124, XX 389, XXII 79, XXVII 490
general Clouston Tales I 352
general FL XIX 324ff. Scotch: Macdougall and Calder 205ff.
general cf. Japanese: Mitford 191ff., Ikeda.

Within the index

Filed under Fairies heal mortals.

Filed beside it

Fairy physician can heal anyone whose spine is not severed Fairies give man white powder to cure mortals, replenish his supply whenever needed

Travels with

Magic object causes humps to appear on back. (Cf. F344.1.)

Carried in tale types

The Gifts of the Little People · ATU 5032 recorded variants

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