The constellation
D1880 Magic rejuvenation
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- Magic self-rejuvenation · D1881 entry
- Rejuvenation by supernatural person · D1882 entry
- Eternal youth. (Cf. F167.9, F172.) · D1883 entry
- Rejuvenation by dismemberment. (Cf. D1885.1.) · D1884 entry
- Rejuvenation by boiling. (Cf. D1865.) · D1885 entry
- Rejuvenation by burning · D1886 entry
- Rejuvenation by bathing · D1887 entry
- Miscellaneous means of rejuvenation · D1889 entry
keeps company
- Magic aging. (Cf. D1857.) · D1890 entry
- Magic fountain. (Cf. D926, D927.) · D925 entry
- Sky-rope. Access to upper world by means of a rope · F51 entry
- Originator of death first sufferer. After the culture hero has instituted death, his own child dies and he repents in vain · K1681 entry
- Deluge. Inundation of whole world or section · A1010 entry
- Flood from fluids of the body · A1012 entry
- Flood from belly. It flows from pierced belly of monster · A1013 entry
- World-fire. A conflagration destroys the earth. Sometimes (as with the flood legends) the tradition is somewhat local and does not refer to an actual destruction of the whole earth; sometimes the fire marks the end of the world · A1030 entry
- Creation of man · A1200 entry
- Confusion of tongues. Originally all men speak same language. Because of a sin they come to speak different languages · A1333 entry
cross-ref
carried in tale type
- The Old Woman who Was Skinned · ATU 877
attested in
- Tales of the North American Indians · Tale 8
- Tales of the North American Indians · Tale 9