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Motif

Spirits help mortal. Familiar spirits.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Spirits and demons. · Spirits and demons (general). · view the constellation · filed as F403.2

Filed across the traditions
  • Jewish Neuman
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Eskimo (Greenland) Rasmussen III 97, 267, (Labrador): Hawkes GSCan XIV 91
  • West Indies Flowers 433.
  • general **Feilberg Nissens Historie
  • general *Polívka Zs. f. Vksk. XXV 226 n. 8, XXVIII 41 n. 2
  • general Dickson 121 n. 64, 213 n. 143
  • general Kittredge Witchcraft 613 s. v. "familiars". Irish myth: Cross
Within the index

Filed under Good spirits.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Acquisition of familiar spirit Form of familiar spirit Deeds of familiar spirits
Filed beside it
Spirits give money to mortal
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Helpful deeds of brownie or other household spirit. (Cf. F403.2.)

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