Initiation into witchcraft

Motif

Initiation into witchcraft.

Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Witches. · Witches – miscellaneous motifs. · view the constellation · filed as G286

Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

Icelandic*Boberg
DanishKristensen Danske Sagn IV (1901) 144ff., (1936) 230ff.
India*Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Witches – miscellaneous motifs.

1 finer motif beneath it

Women learn witchcraft by masking as men. Hence women are witches

Filed beside it

Consecrated wafer kept in mouth in order to be a witch Witches punish lazy spinning women Witches have control over weather Witch as helper Witches avoid religious ceremonies 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

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