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Magic meat.

Magic. · Magic objects. · Kinds of magic objects. · Magic food. · view the constellation · filed as D1032

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Filed under Magic food.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Magic meal of fishes Flesh of cat when chewed has magic results Flesh of dog when chewed has magic results Flesh of pig when chewed has magic results
Filed beside it
Food supplied by magic. Most of the references in D1030 also belong here Magic banquet Magic food from herbs Magic pastry (bread, cake, etc.) Magic cereal (food) Magic vegetable (as food). (Cf. D983.) Magic nuts (as food). (Cf. D985.) Magic dairy products Magic honey Magic sweets Magic food – miscellaneous
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Fighting animals eaten produce magic strength. (Cf. D1032.) Eating serpent's and wolf's flesh makes courageous and impetuous. (Cf. D1032.) Magic meat pacifies animal guardians. (Cf. D1032.) Flesh of white cow with red ears as only cure for mysterious illness. (Cf. D1032.) Magic bird (when eaten) gives power of excreting jewels. (Cf. D1032.) Self-cooking fowls. (Cf. D1032.) Speaking loin of goat meat. (Cf. D1032.) Eaten goat bleats from eater's stomach. (Cf. D1032.) Inexhaustible meat. (Cf. D1032.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Transformation: man to wild beast (mammal) Transformation: man to tiger Transformation: man to cuttlefish Transformation: man to serpent (snake). (Cf. B642.1.) Repeated transformation. Transformation into one form after another Magic sword Magic strength-giving food. (Cf. D1030.) Immortality by burning Protean transformation of water-spirit Dragon-tongue proof. Dragon slayer cuts out the tongues and uses them later to prove his identity as slayer Test of sex of man masking as girl: arms placed among baskets and war-trumpet sounded. Man snatches arms Man disguised as woman admitted to women's quarters: seduction

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