Iron bands around heart to keep it from breaking. When master is disenchanted, bands around heart of faithful servant snap one by one

Motif

Iron bands around heart to keep it from breaking. When master is disenchanted, bands around heart of faithful servant snap one by one.

Marvels. · Extraordinary places and things. · Other extraordinary objects and places. · view the constellation · filed as F875

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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.

Icelandic*Boberg.
general *Type 440
general *BP I 1ff.

Within the index

Filed under Other extraordinary objects and places.

Filed beside it

Extraordinary boat (ship)Extraordinary bridge Extraordinary rope Extraordinary nail. (Cf. F841.1.7.)Extraordinary bed Extraordinary web (of guts)Extraordinary ladder (stair)Extraordinary food Extraordinary coffin Extraordinary image Extraordinary loom Extraordinary broom (besom)Golden plow Extraordinary wagon (cart, carriage, etc.)Extraordinary horseshoe Extraordinary chain

Carried in tale types

The Frog King or Iron Henry · ATU 4403 recorded variants

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