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D1081 Magic sword
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filed under
- Magic weapons · D1080 entry
beneath it
- Sword of magic origin · D1081.1 entry
keeps company
- Transformation: man to wild beast (mammal) · D110 entry
- Transformation: man to tiger · D112.2 entry
- Magic strength-giving food. (Cf. D1030.) · D1335.1 entry
- Magic song kills person. (Cf. D1275.) · D1402.11 entry
- Transformation: man to cuttlefish · D174 entry
- Immortality by burning · D1851.1 entry
- Transformation: man to serpent (snake). (Cf. B642.1.) · D191 entry
- Repeated transformation. Transformation into one form after another · D610 entry
- Life token: comb drips blood · E761.1.7 entry
- Protean transformation of water-spirit · F420.4.1.1 entry
cross-ref
- Sword turns upon owner when untruth is uttered. (Cf. D1081.) · D1316.11 entry
- Magic sword gives weakness. (Cf. D1081.) · D1336.1 entry
- Magic sword gives invulnerability. (Cf. D1081.) · D1344.11 entry
- Magic sword gives immortality. (Cf. D1081.) · D1346.9 entry
- Magic sword renders invisible. (Cf. D1081.) · D1361.18 entry
- Sword causes magic sleep. (Cf. D1081.) · D1364.27 entry
- Magic sword protects woman from fairy lover in husband's absence. (Cf. D1081, F301.) · D1386.1 entry
- Sword puts to flight five evil passions. (Cf. D1081.) · D1389.14 entry
- Magic sword conquers enemy. (Cf. D1081, D1601.4.) · D1400.1.4.1 entry
- Magic sword kills man. (Cf. D1081.) · D1402.7.1 entry
- Drop of hound's blood from magic spear (lance) pierces owner's foot (head). (Cf. D1081.) · D1404.2 entry
- Magic sword (rubbed) summons genie. (Cf. D1081.) · D1421.1.8 entry
- Magic sword cures disease. (Cf. D1081.) · D1500.1.17.1 entry
- Magic transportation by sword. (Cf. D1081.) · D1520.8.1 entry
- Magic sword gives power of flying. (Cf. D1081.) · D1531.3 entry
- Magic sword carries person through air. (Cf. D1081.) · D1532.12 entry
carried in tale type
Thompson cites
- The Kalevala · Rune XII
- The Library (Bibliotheca) · BOOK III, ch. XIII