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Motif

Unique deadly weapon. Only one thing will kill a certain man.

Miscellaneous groups of motifs. · Unique exceptions · Unique vulnerability. · view the constellation · filed as Z312

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic De la Saussaye 154, 156, *Boberg
  • N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 357 n. 287g
  • Africa (Cameroon) Ittman 77, (Swahili): Steere 441.
  • general *Dh II 211
  • general *Wesselski Archiv Orientální II 430
  • general Penzer VIII 109 n. 3
  • general R. M. Meyer Archiv f. Religionsgeschichte (1907) 93ff. Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 151, *Cross
Within the index

Filed under Unique vulnerability.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Person can be killed only by red-hot spits being thrust through soles of his feet Giant ogre can be killed only with iron club he carries (with own sword) Unique source of weakness Unique bait for fish
Filed beside it
Achilles heel. Invulnerability except in one spot Vulnerability only by one person Sword which will break in only one peril: this known only to the maker of the sword Ogre vulnerable only when his face is turned away when he is struck Only one way to besiege certain city

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