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Filed across the traditions
  • Scotch Macdougall and Calder 235 ("glastig")
  • Icelandic *Boberg
  • Lappish Hartland Science 173
  • Finnish-Swedish Wessman 81ff. Nos. 673–739
  • Jewish *Neuman
  • Arabian Burton Nights I 28, 76, 333, II 233–238, VI 158, 242n., VIII 131, S VI 325ff., 452
  • India *Thompson-Balys, Penzer X 362 s. v. "Witch"
  • Mono Wheeler 45
  • Papua Ker 21, 31, 68
  • Tuamotu Stimson MS (z-G. 13/499)
  • S. Am. Indian (Toba) Métraux MAFLS XL 77, (Araucanian): Alexander Lat. Am. 328
  • Africa *Werner African 333ff., (Basuto): Jacottet 236 No. 34.
  • general *Types 405, 432, 442, 708, 710, 711
  • general **Kittredge Witchcraft
  • general *Vordemfelde Die Hexe im deutschen Volksmärchen (Mogk Festschrift 588)
  • general *Fb "heks" IV 206a
  • general Hansen Zauberwahn, Inquisition und Hexenprozess im Mittelalter (München and Leipzig, 1900), ibid. Quellen und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte des Hexenwahns und der Hexenverfolgung in den österr. Alpenländern (1934)
  • general Hdwb. d. Abergl. III 1827–1920
  • general R. F. Fortune Sorcerers of Dobu (London, 1932)
  • general M. Am. Murray The Witch-Cult in Western Europe (Oxford, 1921)
  • general M. Summers The History of Witchcraft and Demonology (London, 1926)
  • general *Arne Runeberg Witches, Demons and Fertility Magic (Helsinki, 1947)
  • general A. Mayer Erdmutter und Hexe (München, 1936)
  • general *Hoffman-Krayer Zs. f. Vksk. XXV 117. – Irish myth: *Cross
Within the index
7 finer motifs beneath it
Three witch sisters. Sometimes simply three hags Beneficent witches Origin of witches Girl in service of witch Witch stepmother Witch has (three) giant sons Male witch
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Bewitching. (Cf. D5, G200.) Transformation: man to witch. (Cf. G200.) Witches in wild hunt. (Cf. G200.) Rescue of maidens from witches. (Cf. G200.)

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