Hair so stiff that apples falling on it would be impaled

Motif

Hair so stiff that apples falling on it would be impaled.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Remarkable persons. · Remarkable physical organs. · view the constellation · filed as F555.8

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

Irish myth*Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Remarkable hair. (Cf. F521, F531.1.6.3.)

1 finer motif beneath it

Hair above heart so stiff it rends five garments

Filed beside it

Gold hair Silver hair Very long hair Very thick hair Multi-colored hair Man has drop of blood on end of each hair Poisonous white hair in eyebrow that causes death to the first person who sees it each day Hair so curly that nuts falling on it would be held Hair emits sound

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