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Motif

Magic spittle.

Magic. · Magic objects. · Kinds of magic objects. · Magic bodily members. · Magic bodily members – human. · view the constellation · filed as D1001

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“For once they ought to get some one else. I am to sit on the chief’s bed in the middle of the lodge.” He told his mother, “Do not let these women go out.’”’ Then he went out, and the old woman guarded the door. When she was asleep, one of the girls said, “I will go out to look.’’ She stepped over the old woman, and went to the dance-lodge. Looking in, she saw the people dancing on the Loon’s rump.”

— Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 49 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 11references

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.

  • IcelandicBoberg
  • JewishNeuman
  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • MaoriDixon 59
  • N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 329 n. 190, 331 n. 196a
  • Africa (Zulu)Callaway 64, 234, (Upoto): Einstein 125
  • JamaicaBeckwith MAFLS XVII 263 No. 67.
  • general *Type 313
  • general *BP II 527 n. 1
  • general *Fb "spytte" III 514b, 515a
  • general Penzer VIII 59 n. 3. Irish: Plummer clxxxiii, *Cross
Within the index

Filed under Magic bodily members – human.

Filed beside it
Magic hairMagic headMagic eye. See references to D2071Magic footMagic handMagic internal organs – humanMagic private parts – humanMagic excrementsMagic blood – humanMagic tearsMagic breathMagic buttocksMagic bone (human). (Cf. D1013.)Magic human fleshMagic bodily members (human) – miscellaneous
Travels with
Magic spittle of animal. (Cf. D1001.)Speaking spittle reveals truth. (Cf. D1001.)Beautification by use of saint's spittle. (Cf. D1001.)Saint's spittle protects fugitive from attack. (Cf. D1001.)Magic circle of saliva kills dragon. (Cf. D1001, D1272.)Treasure from spittle. (Cf. D1454.2, D1001.)Magic healing spittle. (Cf. D1001, D1505.2.)Spittle restores sight. (Cf. D1001, D1500.1.8.)Spittle restores hearing. (Cf. D1001.)Magic spittle causes storm. (Cf. D1001.)Magic spittle controls rain. Makes rain on everyone but possessor of spittle himself. (Cf. D1001.)Saint's spittle splits rocks. (Cf. D1001.)Magic spittle impersonates fugitives. (Cf. D1001.)Evil eye averted by spitting. (Cf. D1001, D1776.)Sea formed from giant's spittle. (Cf. D1001.)Resuscitation by spittle. (Cf. D1001.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Magic excrementsMagic tearsMagic ornament provides treasureMagic building provides treasureOld man of the sea. Burr-woman. Ogre who jumps on one's back and sticks there magicallyQuest assigned because of feigned dreamHeat test. Attempt to kill hero by burning him in fireTree-pulling contestDeceptive eating contestEscape by shamming death: blood and brains. The trickster covers himself with paint (or the like) so that he will be thought to have bled to death (or with milk so that it will be thought that his brains have been knocked out)Substitute smoker. The hero is compelled to smoke a fatal pipe, but the helpful insect which he carries on his head smokes the pipe for himThe false bridegroom (substitute bridegroom). Takes the place of the true bridegroom

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