Demon enters person and refuses to leave until wishes have been fulfilled

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Demon enters person and refuses to leave until wishes have been fulfilled.

Deceptions. · Other deceptions. · Miscellaneous deceptions. · view the constellation · filed as K2385

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.

Irish mythCross
Jewishbin Gorion Born Judas II 193ff., 352f.
IndiaThompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Miscellaneous deceptions.

Filed beside it

Deceiving the higher powers (God, the saints, the gods, fate)Enemies reconciled by gifts which the one's son tells are sent from the other The returned box on the ears. At table each gives his neighbor a box on the ears. The soldier is to give it to the king, but he returns it to the courtier from whom he has received it Entering a garden by swimming down a stream that flows into it Temporary advantage gained by pretending to yield in a combat Ruler diverts attention from misgovernment by beginning a war One animal injures another by deception Tying cat to balky horse's tail to make him move Man tricked to be one's sworn brother in order to secure his help against his mother Attempt to kill by throwing knife

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