The constellation
D1256 Magic ball
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filed under
- Miscellaneous magic objects · D1250 entry
keeps company
- Magic bone gives advice. (Cf. D1013.) · D1312.2 entry
- Miraculous speed from magic object · D1521 entry
- Magic arrow flight. Man keeps ahead of arrow which he shoots. (Cf. D1092.) · D1526.1 entry
- Magic ball flight. Man throws ball and is carried along with it. (Cf. D1256.) · D1526.2 entry
- Magic journey through power of imagination · D2121.3 entry
- Magic journey by making distance vanish. The road is contracted or the earth folded up · D2121.4 entry
- Magic underground journey · D2131 entry
- Magic air journey · D2135 entry
- Life token. (Cf. E760.) Object (animal, person) has mystic connection with the life of a person, so that changes in the life-token indicate changes in the person, usually disaster or death · E761 entry
- Thunderbird. A mythical giant bird usually thought of as a thunder-god · A284.2 entry
cross-ref
- Magic ball indicates road. Rolls ahead. (Cf. D1256.) · D1313.1 entry
- Magic wishing-ball. (Cf. D1256.) · D1470.1.29 entry
- Magic ball flight. Man throws ball and is carried along with it. (Cf. D1256.) · D1526.2 entry
- Speaking muirlan (ball). (Cf. D1256.) · D1610.23 entry
- Speaking ball of thread. (Cf. D1256.) · D1610.28 entry
- Muirlan (ball) removes itself. (Cf. D1256.) · D1641.5 entry
attested in
- Tales of the North American Indians · Tale 43