Animal as magician. (Cf. B154.) — Mythoi

Motif

Animal as magician. (Cf. B154.)

Animals. · Magic animals. · Magic animals: miscellaneous motifs. · view the constellation · filed as B191

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter LXVII LXVII. The External Soul in Folk-Custom
Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter XVI XVI. Dianus and Diana
Literary Crystallization Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None , Chapter 65 LXV. THE MAGICIAN.
Literary Crystallization Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None , Chapter 74 LXXIV. THE SONG OF MELANCHOLY.

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Magic animals: miscellaneous motifs.

7 finer motifs beneath it

Weasel as conjurer Ox-demon as magician Tiger as magician Rat gives magic medicine Hedgehog builds castle Bird as magician Serpent as magician

Filed beside it

Magic animal killed Otter carries flaming wood in mouth Magic animal used by hero in contest grows bigger with every round

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Animal as soothsayer

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