Demons assume human forms in order to deceive.
Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Spirits and demons. · Spirits and demons (general). · view the constellation · filed as F402.1.4
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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.
- IndiaThompson-Balys
- Mono-AluWheeler 4, 6f., 18f., 32, 39, 41f., 46, 49, 51f., 60f., 61, 188.
- general Kittredge Witchcraft 223f., 530 nn. 98–101. – Irish myth: Cross