μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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.

  • EstonianL. v. Schroeder Germanische Elben und Götter beim Estenvolke (Wien 1906), Loorits Grundzüge I 266–281, 295–304.
  • general **Feilberg Der Kobold in nordischer Überlieferung (Zs. f. Vksk. VIII 1, 130, 264)
  • general *Kittredge Witchcraft 215f., 523f. nn. 23, 25. Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn II (1893) 41ff., (1928) 29ff.
Within the index

Filed under House-spirits.

5 finer motifs beneath it
Acquiring a coboldCobold avenges uncivil answer (or treatment)Cobolds furnish supplies to their mastersImpossible 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.)
Filed beside it
House-spirit in form of a sowSerpent as house-spiritThieving household-spirit. Steals things for its masterHouse-spirit in form of babyHouse-spirit without bones or hairBrownie (nisse)Ship-spirit. (Klabautermann, Kabonterken.) Similar to house-spiritThe stupid house spirit

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