Note 104.1 — Chapter XIX · THE MEDUSA-WITCH IN MÄRCHEN.
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This of course is the ordinary bride-quest of fairy tales. The destined lady is in the power of a magician, who may be her father or merely her master. The hero, usually by her help, performs various tasks, which end in his winning her and destroying, or foiling, the magician. The transformation by the magician of his captives is not, perhaps, a very common incident in the plot. More frequently they are slain and their heads adorn in truly savage fashion the palisades of his dwelling. In a story from the neighbourhood of Bologna, they are turned into statues of salt.104.1 Elsewhere, as in a Breton tale, they are changed into trees.104.2