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.)

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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

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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.

DanishKristensen Danske Sagn I (1892) 325ff., (1928) 207ff.
GermanFindeisen 3 No. 5
IcelandicBoberg.

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

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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