Acquiring a cobold — Mythoi

Motif

Acquiring a cobold.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Spirits and demons. · House-spirits. · view the constellation · filed as F481.0.1

Filed across the traditions

Lithuanian Balys Index No. 3466.

Within the index

Filed under Cobold. A house-spirit.

4 finer motifs beneath it

Cobold hatched out from a seven-year-old cock's egg or a boar's testicle Cobold purchased Cobold acquired by placing food for him in a certain place. He likes scrambled eggs Cobold accidently acquired. A rope or chicken is found and taken home. Found to be a cobold

Filed beside it

Cobold avenges uncivil answer (or treatment) Cobolds furnish supplies to their masters Impossible to rid oneself of cobold. (Cf. F482.3.1.) Brewing in eggshell to drive away cobold. (Cf. F321.1.1.1, F451.5.17.1.)

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