Witch kills with aid of witch-ball (hair rolled in beeswax). The ball is sometimes found in the mouth of dead victims.
Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Witches. · Evil deeds of witches. · view the constellation · filed as G262.4
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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.
- U.S.Baughman.