Magic bull — Mythoi

Motif

Magic bull.

Animals. · Magic animals. · Other magic animals. · Magic quadrupeds. · view the constellation · filed as B184.2.3

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

FinnishThe Kalevala, Rune XXVII
Ancient EgyptianEgyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri, ANPU AND BATA.ANPU AND BATA.
Depth CommentaryThemis: A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion, CHAPTER III.

Scholars’ trail — 2references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

ArabianBurton VIII 120 n., 121, XVII 366f.
JewishNeuman.

Within the index

Filed under Magic cow (ox, bull).

3 finer motifs beneath it

Magic bull to be flayed. The bull orders the hero (heroine) to flay him and to use his skin for magic purposes. (Cf. B192, B335, B411.1.)Magic bull can be milked Indra sends down buffalo whose milk is offered to the saints

Filed beside it

Magic white cow Magic cow Magic ox. (Cf. B154.)Magic ox Magic calf

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