Witch smears fat on brooms in preparation for flight

Motif

Witch smears fat on brooms in preparation for flight.

Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Witches. · Habits of witches. · view the constellation · filed as G242.1.1

Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

Finnish-SwedishWessman 81f. Nos. 675, 683.
general Fb "fejd"
general Penzer IX 45 n. 1
general England, U.S.: Baughman

Within the index

Filed under Witch flies through air on broomstick.

Filed beside it

Witch rides stalk of broom (ragwort)

Travels with

Witches use magic aids for flying. (Cf. D1531, G242.1.1.)

wander