μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Magic animal killed.

Animals. · Magic animals. · Magic animals: miscellaneous motifs. · view the constellation · filed as B192

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross
  • N. Am. Indian (Seneca) Curtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 161 No. 27.
Within the index

Filed under Magic animals: miscellaneous motifs.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Magic birds die when owner is killed Magic pig burned to prevent resuscitation Rain-withholding deer killed: rain released Treasure-producing bird killed to please a paramour
Filed beside it
Animal as magician. (Cf. B154.) Otter carries flaming wood in mouth Magic animal used by hero in contest grows bigger with every round
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
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.)

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