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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

Filed across the traditions
  • Danish Kristensen Danske Sagn I (1892) 337ff.
  • Lithuanian Indogermanische Forschungen XXXV 124 No. 18
  • German Haas 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

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