Witch recognition – miscellaneous methods

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Witch recognition – miscellaneous methods.

Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Witches. · Recognition of witches. · view the constellation · filed as G259

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.

England*Baughman.

Within the index

Filed under Recognition of witches.

5 finer motifs beneath it

Witch recognized by looking in or through magic object Witch recognized by odor. (Cf. G303.4.8.1, G303.6.3.4.)Witch may be recognized by absence of bleeding when she is pricked with pins Witch may be recognized after death by great weight of corpse. (Cf. E400.)Witch stretches out her hand and brings water from ocean without getting out of her bed; is recognized

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Man discovers his wife is a witch Witch recognized by seeing wandering soul return Witch in form of cat has hand cut off: recognized next morning by missing hand 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.)

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