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Motif

Dwarfs request that cow stable be moved because it is above their home and the seepage strikes their dining table. (Cf. F381.7, F451.4.1.5.)

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Spirits and demons. · Underground spirits. · view the constellation · filed as F451.4.4.3

Filed across the traditions
  • Danish Kristensen Danske Sagn I (1892) 325ff., (1928) 207ff.
  • German Findeisen 3 No. 5
  • Icelandic Boberg.
Within the index

Filed under Home of dwarfs is endangered or destroyed.

1 finer motif beneath it
Dwarf wishes death to mortal who throws water on his dunghill home
Filed beside it
Dwarfs resentful that mortals shoot at birds above Hibichenstein, because this crumbles away the cliff Thirty-Years War destroys home of dwarfs
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Fairies leave when people do their needs where they live Dwarf home is underground, beneath cow stable. (Cf. F451.4.4.3.)

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