μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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 mythCross
  • Icelandic*Boberg.
Within the index

Filed under Characteristics of witches – miscellaneous.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Witch can be killed only by certain lanceWitch 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.)Witch says her knees are beads (liver is lead, stomach is copper, or the like)
Filed beside it
Soul of witch leaves the bodyWitch carries her children in her own bodyWitches lack bread and saltBeautiful witch. (Cf. G264.)Witch's body melts stone she sits onBlue lights follow witchesFire burns up and crackles when wizard passes fireplace

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