Reading Bible backwards causes witch to reveal herself. (Cf. D1985.2.)

Motif

Reading Bible backwards causes witch to reveal herself. (Cf. D1985.2.)

Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Witches. · Recognition of witches. · view the constellation · filed as G257.2

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.

EnglandBaughman.

Within the index

Filed under Charms to cause witch to reveal herself. (Cf. G271.)

Filed beside it

Burning object forces witch to reveal herself: sympathetic magic Turning table, cutting notches in it causes witch to reveal herself Taking tile from witch's house forces her to reveal herself Person puts man's breeches over cow's head; the cow stops in front of witch's house Person places three notched elder twigs under bowl. Witch is forced to remove them, thus revealing herself

Travels with

Invisibility by reciting formula backwards

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