Witch in form of cat has hand cut off: recognized next morning by missing hand

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Witch in form of cat has hand cut off: recognized next morning by missing hand.

Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Witches. · Recognition of witches. · view the constellation · filed as G252

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Depth CommentaryPrimitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom, Chapter VIII

Scholars’ trail — 9references

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.

North CarolinaBrown Collection I 660
IcelandicBoberg
LithuanianBalys Index Nos. 3657, 3684
SwissJegerlehner Oberwallis 304 No. 25, 307 No. 31, 325 Nos. 7, 15
SpanishEspinosa Jr. Nos. 170, 171
JapaneseIkeda
West IndiesFlowers 444.
general Taylor MPh XVII (1919) 59 n. 8
general Wales, U.S.: *Baughman

Within the index

Filed under Recognition of witches.

4 finer motifs beneath it

A cat in form of an old woman has hand cut off; recognized next morning by missing paw Witch killed as whale. She herself is sitting at home Goat's tongue pierced with sharp needle; consequently, witch is sick with pierced tongue Bird's neck broken: rakshasa dies

Filed beside it

Man discovers his wife is a witch Witch recognized by seeing wandering soul return Witch's horns discovered by lousing her Witch known by inability to rise from chair with four-leaf clover under it Witch known by hose unbound on one leg Charms to cause witch to reveal herself. (Cf. G271.)Witch recognition – miscellaneous methods

Travels with

Witch followed by husband; dies when discovered. (Cf. G252.)Witch in the form of an animal is injured or killed as a result of the injury to the animal. (Cf. G252, G275.14.)

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