The constellation
D2031 Magic illusion
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- Saints cause illusions · D2031.0.1 entry
- Fairies cause illusions · D2031.0.2 entry
- Magic illusion dissipated by sign of the cross · D2031.0.3 entry
- Druids cause illusions. (Cf. D2031.4.1.) · D2031.0.4 entry
- Giantess' punishment is pure illusion · D2031.0.5 entry
- Magician makes people lift garments to avoid wetting in imaginary river · D2031.1 entry
- Thread made to appear as a large log carried by a cock · D2031.2 entry
- Pursued animal runs through imaginary river · D2031.3 entry
- Hideous person magically makes self seem beautiful · D2031.4 entry
- Man magically made to believe himself bishop, archbishop, and pope. When he continues to refuse payment to the magician, the latter shows him the reality · D2031.5 entry
- Magic illusion as protection · D2031.6 entry
- Horse made to appear as tree-trunk · D2031.7 entry
- Armies separated with illusion that each has won object of contention · D2031.8 entry
- Enemy's last arrow made to appear crooked so that he does not use it, and adversary gets time to kill him · D2031.9 entry
- Spear made to appear as a reed in order to kill treacherously · D2031.10 entry
- Illusive fire stops men · D2031.11 entry
- Sea water made to behave like solid earth · D2031.12 entry
- Magic rath always seems distant, never near · D2031.13 entry
- Illusion: mountains seem to be fighting · D2031.14 entry
- Goat appears to be two every time man aims · D2031.15 entry
- Vision of food arises to tempt fasting women · D2031.16 entry
- Storm appears to be island · D2031.17 entry
- Person appears to be in several places at once · D2031.18 entry