Motif
animal skin garment gives new name and marks ordeal
animal_skin_garment_gives_new_name_and_marks_ordeal
A motif of the Initiation and Transformative Ordeal family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
germanic
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Household Tales by Brothers Grimm SECOND STORY / FIRST STORY / SECOND STORY / THIRD STORY; lines 14450-14529 confidence: high
The Devil gives the soldier the green coat with a money-filled pocket, pulls the skin off the bear, makes it the soldier's cloak and bed, names him Bearskin, and vanishes.
The Devil turns the bear's skin into the soldier's cloak and bed and says that because of this apparel he will be called Bearskin.
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