The constellation
H175 Recognition by "force of nature". Unknown member of family immediately and magically recognized
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- Recognition of son by gushing up of milk in mother's breasts · H175.1 entry
- Child mystically recognizes woman as his mother · H175.2 entry
- Sick prince's pulse beats violently when his loved one passes by · H175.3 entry
- Fire issues spontaneously from fireless hearth when man approaches · H175.4 entry
- Ghost of unknown child passes over heads of parents and bursts in a spray of blood · H175.5 entry
keeps company
- Escape by use of substituted object. The object is attacked rather than the intended victim · K525 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
- Looking tabu · C300 entry
- Sky-basket. Ascent to or descent from upper world in a basket · F51.2 entry
attested in
- Tales of the North American Indians · Tale 75