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Magic excrements.

Magic. · Magic objects. · Kinds of magic objects. · Magic bodily members. · Magic bodily members – human. · view the constellation · filed as D1002

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“The birds assented and returned to the shore, when all retreated a short distance away from the lake to an open space where they might dance. Manabozho removed the bundle of bark froni his back and placed it on the ground, got out his singing-sticks, and said to the birds, “Now, all of you dance around me asI drum; sing as loudly as you can, and keep your eyes closed. The first one to open his eyes will forever have them red and sore.””

— Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 24 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

  • HinduKeith 145
  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • ChineseEberhard FFC CXX 161
  • N. Am. IndianThompson Tales 296 n. 83c, 329 n. 190a, (Takelma): Sapir UPa II 65 No. 4.
Within the index

Filed under Magic bodily members – human.

1 finer motif beneath it
Magic urine
Filed beside it
Magic hairMagic headMagic eye. See references to D2071Magic footMagic handMagic internal organs – humanMagic private parts – humanMagic spittleMagic blood – humanMagic tearsMagic breathMagic buttocksMagic bone (human). (Cf. D1013.)Magic human fleshMagic bodily members (human) – miscellaneous
Travels with
Excrements as advisers. (Cf. D1002.)Filth (dirt, excrements) eaten gives immortality. (Cf. D1002.)Excrements cause approaching animals to fall dead. (Cf. D1002.)Treasure from excrements. (Cf. D1002.)Magic excrement as cure for cancer. (Cf. D1002.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Magic private parts – humanMagic spittleMagic tearsMagic object gives adviceBodily members as advisers. (Cf. D990.)Magic object points out roadBlinded trickster directed by trees. He asks them their names and by their answers he can tell where he is. (Cf. D950.)Magic swallow-skin warns of danger. (Cf. D1025.4.)Magic ornament provides treasureMagic building provides treasureSpeaking plant. (Cf. D965, F815.)Old man of the sea. Burr-woman. Ogre who jumps on one's back and sticks there magically

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