Magic tears — Mythoi

Motif

Magic tears.

Magic. · Magic objects. · Kinds of magic objects. · Magic bodily members. · Magic bodily members – human. · view the constellation · filed as D1004

Attested across traditions

North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 49 receipt

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Filed across the traditions

Norse De la Saussaye 277
Jewish *Neuman
N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 329 n. 190b.
general Hartland Science 238. Irish: Plummer cl, *Cross

Within the index

Filed under Magic bodily members – human.

Filed beside it

Magic hair Magic head Magic eye. See references to D2071 Magic foot Magic hand Magic internal organs – human Magic private parts – human Magic spittle Magic excrements Magic blood – human Magic breath Magic buttocks Magic bone (human). (Cf. D1013.) Magic human flesh Magic bodily members (human) – miscellaneous

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Treasure from tears. (Cf. D1004.) Saint's tears produce fountain. (Cf. D1004.)

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Magic spittle Magic excrements Magic ornament provides treasure Magic building provides treasure Old man of the sea. Burr-woman. Ogre who jumps on one's back and sticks there magically Quest assigned because of feigned dream Heat test. Attempt to kill hero by burning him in fire Tree-pulling contest Deceptive eating contest Escape 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 him The false bridegroom (substitute bridegroom). Takes the place of the true bridegroom

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