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• Magic horseshoe keeps off devils, trolls, and witches. (Cf. D1286.) D1385.9
• Trolls (fairies) live in range of hills. F214
• Trolls. Sometimes underground spirits, sometimes also thought of as mountain-spirits. In many tales trolls are ogres. (Cf. G100, G400–G599.) F455
• Home of trolls. F455.1
• Trolls live in howe (barrow, grave). F455.1.1
• Trolls live in cliffs. F455.1.2
• Appearance of trolls. (Cf. G304.1.) F455.2
• Trolls the size of ten or twelve year old child. F455.2.1
• Trolls are usually ugly, hideous, big and strong. F455.2.2
• Trolls are black (dark). F455.2.3
• Trolls dressed in skins. F455.2.4
• Trolls frightful. F455.2.6
• Great age of trolls. Often centuries old. F455.2.10
• Characteristic activities of trolls. F455.3
• Trolls skillful as smiths. F455.3.1
• Trolls dance. F455.3.2
• Trolls ride. F455.3.3
• Trolls ride on men and cattle. F455.3.3.3
• Trolls spin and weave fine cloth. F455.3.4
• Trolls bake. F455.3.5
• Trolls go about at night. F455.3.6
• Possessions of trolls. F455.4
• Trolls' riches. F455.4.1
• Trolls' riches inside mountain. F455.4.1.1
• Trolls' food. F455.4.2
• Trolls' food gives man supernatural strength. F455.4.2.1
• Trolls eat from golden dishes, but food is frogs and snakes. F455.4.2.2
• Trolls live on food humans have failed to bless. F455.4.2.3
• Visibility of trolls. (Cf. F235.) F455.5
• Trolls invisible but heard. (Cf. F412, F451.9.6.) F455.5.1
• Trolls have cap of invisibility. (Cf. F451.3.3.8.) F455.5.3
• Certain persons can see trolls. (Cf. F235.3.) F455.5.4
• Animals can see trolls. (Cf. B733.) F455.5.4.1
• Trolls visible to unconfirmed children. F455.5.4.2
• Trolls seen through another's arm (or the like). (Cf. D1821.3.1, F235.6.) F455.5.4.3
• Trolls and men. F455.6
• Trolls' friendship with men. F455.6.1
• Trolls' lending and borrowing. F455.6.2
• Trolls steal from humans. F455.6.3
• Trolls steal fish at Christmas. F455.6.3.1
• Trolls visit men. F455.6.5
• Trolls visit people Christmas Eve. F455.6.5.1
• Trolls carry off people. (Cf. F320, F322.) F455.6.6
• Stolen woman saved from trolls' dance. (Cf. F322.2.) F455.6.6.1
• Trolls as changelings. (Cf. F321.1.) F455.6.7
• Trolls help men. F455.6.8
• Trolls help with grain harvest. F455.6.8.1
• Trolls as the constant enemies of humans. F455.6.9
• People possessed by trolls. F455.6.10
• Trolls and Christianity. (Cf. G304.2.4.1.) F455.7
• Trolls flee before Christianity. (Cf. F382) F455.7.1
• Trolls may not utter holy names. F455.7.3
• Trolls turn to stone at sunrise. (Cf. F531.6.12.2.) F455.8.1
• Trolls killed by lightning. F455.8.2
• Banning trolls. F455.9
• Certain persons can ban trolls. F455.9.1
• Recognizing trolls. F455.10
• Offspring of trolls. F455.11
• Characteristics of trolls. G304.2
• Antipathies of trolls. G304.2.4
• Trolls cannot endure churchbells. G304.2.4.1
• Trolls afraid of bears. G304.2.4.2
• Test: guessing trolls' names in order to save one's life. H516
• Hero goes north to fight with trolls. (Cf. F455.) H945.2
• Curse on everybody on earth who listens to the fatal mentioning of trolls' names, is evaded by person in cave, because he is in the earth. M427
• Fallen angels become fairies (dwarfs, trolls). V236.1