Motif
concealed horned host revealed by looking through a threshold
concealed_horned_host_revealed_by_looking_through_a_threshold
A motif of the Dream, Vision, and Altered Perception 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 6326-6423 confidence: medium
The man visits the godfather’s strange house, ascends successive flights with speaking broom and shovel, dead fingers, dead heads, self-cooking fishes, and sees the godfather with long horns through a keyhole.
The man peeps through a keyhole, sees the godfather with long horns, and later hears the godfather deny the sight before the man flees.
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