Magic pill — Mythoi

Motif

Magic pill.

Magic. · Magic objects. · Kinds of magic objects. · Magic waters and medicines. · view the constellation · filed as D1243

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

IndiaThompson-Balys, Meyer Hindu 193, Penzer II 183 n. 1, III 75f, VII 40 n. 1, 41ff., 222f.
ChineseWerner 134, 159, 184f., 275ff., Eberhard FFC CXX 162.
general *Chauvin VIII 133 No. 126

Within the index

Filed under Magic waters and medicines.

Filed beside it

Magic medicine (= charm)Magic fluid Magic salve (ointment)Magic perfume Magic powder Human liver as medicine

Travels with

Pill of immortality. (Cf. D1243.)Magic pills insure birth of twin sons. (Cf. D1243.)Magic pills render invisible. (Cf. D1243.)Magic pills kill. (Cf. D1243.)Magic pill gives power of flying. (Cf. D1243.)Magic pill saves corpse from corruption. (Cf. D1243.)Magic pill on which one feeds self for years. (Cf. D1243.)Transformation by placing pill in mouth. (Cf. D1243.)Resuscitation by magic pill. (Cf. D1243.)

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