Magic feather — Mythoi

Motif

Magic feather.

Magic. · Magic objects. · Kinds of magic objects. · Magic bodily members. · Magic bodily members – animal. · view the constellation · filed as D1021

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Scholars’ trail — 8references

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.

EnglishChild V 496 s. v. "sleep"
PersianCarnoy 290, 331
IndiaThompson-Balys
Eskimo (Greenland)Rasmussen III 304
Africa (Kaffir)Theal 126.
general *Types 552, 534*
general BP III 18ff.
general 424ff. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s. v. "plume"

Within the index

Filed under Magic bodily members – animal.

1 finer motif beneath it

Magic bird's power in one feather

Filed beside it

Magic animal head Magic limbs of animal Magic bone of animal Magic internal organs of animal Magic blood of animal Magic flesh of animal Magic milk of animal Magic wings Magic hair of animal Magic egg Magic skin of animal Magic dung of animal Magic urine of animal Magic shell of animal Other bodily members of animals – magic

Travels with

Magic feather indicates road. (Cf. D1021.)Magic feather gives clairvoyance. (Cf. D1021.)Rejuvenation by magic feather. (Cf. D1021.)Magic feather brings supernatural old age. (Cf. D1021.)Love-producing magic feather. (Cf. D1021.)Magic feather renders invisible. (Cf. D1021.)Feather causes magic sleep. (Cf. D1021.)Magic feather protects. (Cf. D1021.)Magic feather defeats enemy. (Cf. D1021.)Magic feather restores sight. (Cf. D1021.)Magic feather causes chips from tree to return as cut. Thus the tree remains uncut. (Cf. D1021.)Self-luminous feather. (Cf. D1021.)Resuscitation by magic feather. (Cf. D1021.)

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