Dwarfs' house of reeds — Mythoi

Motif

Dwarfs' house of reeds.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Spirits and demons. · Underground spirits. · view the constellation · filed as F451.4.3.8

Attested across traditions

Germanic Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes , Tale 55 receipt
Germanic Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes , Tale 163 receipt
Germanic Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes , Tale 169 receipt

Filed across the traditions

German Grimm Nos. 55, 163, 169.

Within the index

Filed under Description of dwarf home.

Filed beside it

Dwarf cave closed by iron doors Dwarf cave has large square room with little doors leading to all sides Dwarf cave has ceiling of mineral white as snow Dwarf home has chandelier of crystals and gems. (Cf. F420.2.1.) Floors in dwarf home are covered with pine twigs Dwarfs' castle of gold Magic flower opens dwarf home Dwarfs' house covered with skin of fabulous six-legged animal

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Man carried on goat's horns. (Goat is transformed man.) Tabu: finding name of ghost Transformation: man to goat (he-goat, she-goat, kid etc.) Transformation: man to smoke Transformation: straw to gold Castle magically made smaller Men transformed to animals fight Disenchantment by being wakened from magic sleep by proper agent Attendants of disenchanted person automatically disenchanted Magic rock (stone) Magic elevator. Stone on which one steps carries one underground. (Cf. D931.) Dwarfs clad in motley

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