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- Tabu: kissing. Usually causes disenchantment or magic forgetfulness. (Cf. D735, D2003.) C120
- Tabu: loosing bridle in selling man transformed to horse. Disenchantment follows. C837
- Disenchantment for breaking tabu. C968
- Transformation and disenchantment at will. D630
- Gradual disenchantment. (Cf. D617.) D701
- Partial disenchantment. D702
- Disenchantment with missing member. While in transformation a person loses a bodily member. When disenchanted, he still lacks the member. D702.1
- Disenchantment by rough treatment. D710
- Disenchantment by decapitation. D711
- Disenchantment by decapitation and replacement of head. D711.1
- Disenchantment by cutting person in two. D711.2
- Disenchantment from bird by cutting off bill. D711.3
- Disenchantment from flower by breaking stalk. D711.4
- Disenchantment from flower by plucking it. D711.4.1
- Disenchantment from leaf by breaking it from tree. D711.5
- Disenchantment from fruit by plucking it from tree. D711.6
- Disenchantment by violence. D712
- Disenchantment by cutting off and reversing bodily members. (Cf. D711.1.) D712.1
- Disenchantment by cutting off animal's limb. D712.1.1
- Disenchantment by cutting in two. D712.1.2
- Disenchantment by slinging against something. D712.2
- Disenchantment by throwing into fire. (Cf. E15.) D712.2.1
- Disenchantment by striking. D712.3
- Disenchantment by striking with a missile. D712.3.1
- Disenchantment by throwing a stone. D712.3.2
- Disenchantment by throwing a flower. D712.3.3
- Disenchantment by drawing blood. D712.4
- Disenchantment by drinking blood. D712.4.1
- Disenchantment by beating. D712.5
- Disenchantment by wounding. D712.6
- Disenchantment by shooting. D712.7
- Disenchantment by ripping armor. D712.8
- Disenchantment by killing. D712.9
- Disenchantment by driving stake through body. D712.10
- Disenchantment by throwing objects at transformed person. D712.11
- Disenchantment by rubbing. D714
- Disenchantment by overcoming enchanted person in fight (contest). D716
- Disenchantment by assembling bones. D717
- Disenchantment by laying collected bones in a seven-fold cloth and spreading another above it. D717.1
- Disenchantment by shaving. D718
- Disenchantment by rough treatment – miscellaneous. D719
- Disenchantment by burying victim and sowing grain over him. D719.1
- Disenchantment through burial and revival. D719.1.1
- Disenchantment by removing (destroying) covering of enchanted person. D720
- Disenchantment by removing skin (or covering). D721
- Disenchantment by flaying. D721.1
- Disenchantment by hiding skin (covering). When the enchanted person has temporarily removed the covering, it is stolen and the victim remains disenchanted until it is found. D721.2
- Disenchantment by destroying skin (covering). D721.3
- Disenchantment by holding temporarily disenchanted person. D721.4
- Disenchantment from fruit (flower) by opening it. D721.5
- Disenchantment by taking off bridle. Man transformed to horse (ass) thus released. D722
- Disenchantment by putting on (removing) chain from neck. D723
- Disenchantment by putting chain around neck. D723.1
- Disenchantment by removing chain from neck. D723.2
- Disenchantment by removing string from neck. D723.2.1
- Disenchantment by submission. The helper must submit to the will of the enchanted person. D730
- Disenchantment by obedience and kindness. D731
- Disenchantment of girl by carrying her on back. D732.1
- Disenchantment of animal by admission to woman's bed. D734
- Disenchantment by kiss. D735
- Beauty and the beast. Disenchantment of animal by being kissed by woman (man). D735.1
- Disenchantment from tree form by embrace of lover. D735.3
- Disenchantment by enduring animal's embrace. D735.4
- Disenchantment of monster when prince promises to marry the monster's mother. The prince imagines falsely that the mother is also a monster. D741
- Disenchantment of monster when his mother acknowledges him as son. D741.1
- Disenchantment of monster child when baptized. D741.2
- Disenchantment by promise to marry. D742
- Disenchantment by sexual intercourse. Man disenchants woman in form of a bear. D743
- Disenchantment by feeding enchanted animals. D745
- Disenchantment by faithfulness of others. D750
- Disenchantment by accomplishment of tasks. D753
- Disenchantment by sewing shirts for enchanted brothers. D753.1
- Disenchantment of another by weeping jug of tears. D753.2
- Disenchantment by obeying directions received in a dream. D753.3
- Disenchantment by climbing glass mountain. D753.4
- Disenchantment by serving transformed person. D754
- Disenchantment of long absent spouse by faithfulness of partner. D755
- Disenchantment by holding enchanted person during successive transformations. D757
- Disenchantment by maintaining silence. D758
- Disenchantment by three nights' silence under punishment. D758.1
- Disenchantment by maintaining silence for a year or more. D758.2
- Disenchantment by faithfulness of others – miscellaneous. D759
- Disenchantment by taking key from serpent's mouth at midnight. The disenchanter is to take the key (three keys) from the mouth of the woman in serpent form with his own mouth. D759.1
- Disenchantment from bird when queen milks own milk into bird's beak. (Cf. D764.1.) D759.2
- Disenchantment by naked virgin undergoing frightful journey at midnight. She must come naked and alone on St. John's night between twelve and one, climb the castle walls, and enter the treasure chamber. D759.3
- Disenchantment if twelve men will not leave castle for a year. D759.4
- Disenchantment by following enchanted woman through lake to underwater castle. D759.5
- Disenchantment by maidens walking with lighted candles in procession. D759.6
- Disenchantment by maiden sitting at head of enchanted king's bed on morning of St. John's day. D759.7
- Disenchantment by miscellaneous means. D760
- Disenchantment by proper person waking from magic sleep. The enchanted person appears three times and if the sleeper does not wake by the third time the enchantment must last. D762
- Disenchantment by causing enchanted person to speak. D762.1
- Disenchantment by being wakened from magic sleep by proper agent. D762.2
- Disenchantment by destroying enchanter. D763
- Disenchantment by eating enchanter's heart. D763.1
- Disenchantment by defeating enchanter in single combat. D763.2
- Disenchantment by eating or drinking. D764
- Disenchantment by drinking milk of queen who has borne two boys. (Cf. D759.2.) D764.1
- Disenchantment by biting certain twig. D764.2
- Disenchantment by eating certain salmon. D764.3