Brewing in eggshell to drive away cobold. (Cf. F321.1.1.1, F451.5.17.1.) — Mythoi

Motif

Brewing in eggshell to drive away cobold. (Cf. F321.1.1.1, F451.5.17.1.)

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Spirits and demons. · House-spirits. · view the constellation · filed as F481.4

Cited in the index

general *BP 368
general Keightley 126, 418, 436, 473
general Germania V 376
general Kristensen Danske Sagn I (1892) 314–24 Nos. 1049–1075
general Jahn 72 No. 87
general Euphorion III 784
general Zs. f. Vksk. XVI 414
general Zs. f. deutsche Mythol. I (1853) 290.

Within the index

Filed under Cobold. A house-spirit.

Filed beside it

Acquiring a cobold Cobold avenges uncivil answer (or treatment) Cobolds furnish supplies to their masters Impossible to rid oneself of cobold. (Cf. F482.3.1.)

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Changeling betrays his age when his wonder is excited. Usually pottage is boiled in an eggshell. The changeling: "I shall soon be a hundred years old but I never saw this done before!" Invisible dwarfs at christening feast made to speak by brewing beer in egg-shell. (Cf. F321.1.1.1, F481.4.)

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