Witches punish lazy spinning women

Motif

Witches punish lazy spinning women.

Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Witches. · Witches – miscellaneous motifs. · view the constellation · filed as G282

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.

general *Hoffman-Krayer Zs. f. Vksk. XXV 120 n. 6.

Within the index

Filed under Witches – miscellaneous motifs.

Filed beside it

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