Witch powerless to cross stream

Motif

Witch powerless to cross stream.

Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Witches. · Witch overcome or escaped. · view the constellation · filed as G273.4

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.
general *Fb "vand" III 1001a

Within the index

Filed under Witch rendered powerless.

1 finer motif beneath it

If witch grabs horse's tail on bridge, man is safe from her

Filed beside it

Witch powerless when one makes sign of cross. (Cf. G271.2.1.)Witch powerless when person speaks before she does Witch powerless at cockcrow Witches powerless at crossroads Witch rendered powerless by drawing blood from her Objects driven into tracks of witch immobilize her

Travels with

Devil cannot follow man over running water. (Cf. F383.2, G273.4.)

wander