Magic knife — Mythoi

Motif

Magic knife.

Magic. · Magic objects. · Kinds of magic objects. · Magic weapons. · view the constellation · filed as D1083

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

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.

JewishNeuman
Eskimo (Greenland)Holm 68, Rasmussen I 230
Africa (Ekoi)Talbot 127, 211.
general *Type 576**, 576******. Icelandic: *Boberg

Within the index

Filed under Magic weapons.

1 finer motif beneath it

Magic poignard (dagger)

Filed beside it

Magic sword Magic saber Magic spear. (Cf. D1086.)Magic javelin Magic lance Magic sling Magic bow Magic arrow Magic missile Magic cudgel (club)Magic hammer (Mjölnir)Magic firearms Magic battle-axe Magic armor Magic trident

Travels with

Magic carving knife. (Cf. D1083.) Magic knife (weapon)Magic two-edged knife indicates direction. Points in proper direction; bends downward to indicate wrong direction. (Cf. D1083.)Knife sings as warning of fraud. (Cf. D1083.)Magic knife conquers enemy. (Cf. D1083.)Alleged resuscitating knife sold. (Cf. D1083.)

Carried in tale types

The Magic Knife · ATU 5762 recorded variants

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