Dhëmbësuta (tooth hind / deaf helper mare)
Dhëmbësutë / Dhëmbësuta
Elsie Dhëmbësuta: deaf/dumb escape mare (tooth hind)
Description
Helper mare of Albanian popular mythology. Elsie 2001 s.v. Dhëmbësuta: Alb. dhëmbësutë, def. dhëmbësuta, Gheg dhamsuta, lit. ‘tooth hind’ — a deaf and dumb mare that one can ride to escape from danger. Fjale.al mit. gloss matches: pelë e shurdhër for escape from danger. Homonym: zoological small white sea-shell — not this body. She is not an epic kreshnik horse, and not Dhevështrues the earth-observer.
Features
- ridden to escape from danger (Elsie; Fjale mit.)
- deaf and dumb mare physiology (Elsie)
Lead story
When danger closes, the tale keeps a mare that cannot hear and cannot speak — Dhëmbësuta, the tooth hind. You climb on and ride out. That is the whole Elsie line. She is not the earth-listener who puts his ear to spring ground, and not a shell on the beach.
Aliases
Dhëmbësutë · Dhëmbësuta · Dhamsuta (Gheg) · Tooth hind (Elsie lit.)
Region
Märchen / pan-folk helper (Elsie; no fixed village cycle)
Relations
- Dhevështrues (earth-observer)separate Elsie lemmas
Linked stories
- Dhëmbësuta ≠ DhevështruesRecorded
Elsie keeps Dhëmbësuta (deaf escape mare) and Dhevështrues (spring earth-listener) as separate lemmas. OCR xref noise must not merge them.