Devil as builder of dams — Mythoi

Motif

Devil as builder of dams.

Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Other ogres. · Other ogres. · view the constellation · filed as G303.9.1.2

Filed across the traditions

Finnish-Swedish man 17 No. 155
general Wünsche Teufel 29f.

Within the index

Filed under The devil as a builder.

Filed beside it

Devil as builder of bridges Devil as builder of mill Devil as builder of walls Devil as builder of palaces (châteaux) Devil as builder of churches Devil builds a road Devil builds a ditch Devil builds two islands in a lake Devil builds an inn for a man in competition with a church being built Devil builds Mont Saint Michel Devil helps build Halberstadt Cathedral thinking a tavern is being built Devil builds a building Satan builds idol Satan builds another world

Carried in tale types

The Priest and the Devil · ATU 810A* 4 recorded variants

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