Dwarfs suspend large millstone on thin thread over head of mortal, to show what anguish dwarfs felt when mortal endangered their lives

Motif

Dwarfs suspend large millstone on thin thread over head of mortal, to show what anguish dwarfs felt when mortal endangered their lives.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Spirits and demons. · Underground spirits. · view the constellation · filed as F451.5.4.2

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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) 337ff.
LithuanianIndogermanische Forschungen XXXV 124 No. 18
GermanHaas Greifswald. 38 No. 40.

Within the index

Filed under Mortal goes to land of dwarfs.

Filed beside it

Ghost conceals herself with dwarfs Enchanted princess lives with dwarfs

Carried in tale types

Life by a Silk Thread · ATU 981A*1 recorded variant

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