Witch says her knees are beads (liver is lead, stomach is copper, or the like)

Motif

Witch says her knees are beads (liver is lead, stomach is copper, or the like).

Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Witches. · Characteristics of witches. · view the constellation · filed as G229.4.4

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.

Eskimo (West Hudson Bay)Boas BAM XV 312.

Within the index

Filed under Invulnerability of witches.

Filed beside it

Witch can be killed only by certain lance Witch can catch bullets and send them back. (Cf. G265.8.3.1.2.)Witch's body does not bleed when stuck with sharp object. (Cf. G225.0.1, G273.6.)

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