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Bits: Bits of folk-tales are the "Device for escaping threatened death by putting a log in one's bed" (as...
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Bits: Bits of folk-tales are the "Device for escaping threatened death by putting a log in one's bed" (as... (Gesta Danorum (Books I-IX), The Danish History, > Books I-Ix > Folk-Tales.)
Bits of iron also are lucky against witches (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter V: The Fenodyree and his Friends)
Gesta Danorum (Books I-IX)
- attestation: Bits: Bits of folk-tales are the "Device for escaping threatened death by
putting a log in one's bed" (as... (The Danish History, > Books I-Ix > Folk-Tales.)
"Bits of folk-tales are the "Device for escaping threatened death by putting a log in one's bed" (as in our Jack the Giant-Killer)."
Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx
- attestation: Bits of iron also are lucky against witches (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter V: The Fenodyree and his Friends)
"Bits of iron also are lucky against witches."
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