Devil's chair in hell made from thrown-away nail parings

Motif

Devil's chair in hell made from thrown-away nail parings.

Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Other ogres. · Other ogres. · view the constellation · filed as G303.25.5

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 Olrik Ragnarök (tr. Ranisch) 73f., No. 1.

Within the index

Filed under Miscellaneous devil motifs.

1 finer motif beneath it

From the parings of man's nails devils make little caps for themselves

Filed beside it

Wolf is the devil's craftiest enemy Devils fear St. Isaac Devil likes negligence in men more than anything else Devil cooks folk in kettle Old woman gives chickens to devils. They do not accept them. She gives them to priests and they eat them Man shoots the devil with a silver gun Devil follows corpse when a lawyer is buried Ship with devil aboard sinks Devil is blamed by monk for taking what does not belong to him. Devil denies accusation Devil takes place of woman who went to spend night with a priest A farmer who trades horses with the devil is cheated Devil buys a woman's hair; the silver coin which he gives in payment is changed to a piece of wood and she dies The food and drink of the devils The devil's animals Possessions of the devil The devils' dances and feasts

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