Magic bread — Mythoi

Motif

Magic bread.

Magic. · Magic objects. · Kinds of magic objects. · Magic food. · view the constellation · filed as D1031.1

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Filed across the traditions

Spanish Boggs FFC XC 60 No. 438*
Jewish Neuman
Babylonian Gilgamesch-Epos XI 220ff., cf. p. 141ff.
general *Type 310C*
general *Fb "brød" IV 74b. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s. v. "pain"

Within the index

Filed under Magic pastry (bread, cake, etc.).

1 finer motif beneath it

Consecrated bread as magic object

Filed beside it

Manna. Food from skies in basket each morning Magic cake

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Loaf of bread locates drowned man. Floated on water comes to rest directly over corpse. (Cf. D1031.1.) Two loaves of bread – one to excite, the other to appease hunger. (Cf. D1031.1.) Magic food brings eater into sender's power. (Cf. D1031.1, D1273.) Magic bread furnishes treasure. (Cf. D1031.1.) Consecrated bread makes vegetables grow. (Cf. D1031.1.) Inexhaustible bread. (Cf. D1031.1.) Wild hunt avoided by holding bread. (Cf. D1031.1.)

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