Consecrated wafer kept in mouth in order to be a witch

Motif

Consecrated wafer kept in mouth in order to be a witch.

Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Witches. · Witches – miscellaneous motifs. · view the constellation · filed as G281

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.

general Kittredge Witchcraft 149, 469 n. 105
general England, U.S.: Baughman.

Within the index

Filed under Witches – miscellaneous motifs.

1 finer motif beneath it

Witch gives away consecrated wafer after service. (Cf. H1292.4.1.)

Filed beside it

Witches punish lazy spinning women Witches have control over weather Witch as helper Witches avoid religious ceremonies Initiation into witchcraft Witches married to fairies Witch escapes from locked room Witch executed for engaging in witchcraft Witch makes man engage in dangerous contests Other witch motifs

Travels with

Person sells soul to devil in exchange for witch powers. (Cf. G281, M211, K210ff.)

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