Witch rides horse at night

Motif

Witch rides horse at night.

Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Witches. · Evil deeds of witches. · view the constellation · filed as G265.3

Scholars’ trail — 6references

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 650, 667
IcelandicBoberg
LithuanianBalys Index Nos. 3657, 3683f.
IndiaThompson-Balys.
general Howie 174ff.
general *Kittredge Witchcraft 219, 527 n. 66

Within the index

Filed under Witch abuses property.

1 finer motif beneath it

Witch's hair on horse becomes iron

Filed beside it

Witch scatters tools at night Witch drowns foal Witches cause disease or death of animals Witch maims animals Witch causes animals to behave unnaturally Witch controls actions of animals. (Cf. D2072.0.2, D2083.2.)Witch bewitches objects. (Cf. D2072, D2081, D2087.1, D2071.0.2.)Witches ruin crop. (Cf. G283.)Witches bewitch trees

Travels with

Spirit rides horses and mules at night, wears them out. (Cf. F366.2, F471.1.1.1, G265.3.)

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