Witch recognized by seeing wasp (beetle) enter her mouth while asleep. Only when it enters can she be awakened

Motif

Witch recognized by seeing wasp (beetle) enter her mouth while asleep. Only when it enters can she be awakened.

Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Witches. · Recognition of witches. · view the constellation · filed as G251.1

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.

Finnish-SwedishWessman 83 No. 684.
general Tobler 39f.

Within the index

Filed under Witch recognized by seeing wandering soul return.

1 finer motif beneath it

Separable soul of witch in parrot. (Cf. E732.)

Filed beside it

Witch recognized when skin of witch is found with soul absent. (Cf. G229.1.1.)

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