Magic line — Mythoi

Motif

Magic line.

Magic. · Magic objects. · Kinds of magic objects. · Miscellaneous magic objects. · view the constellation · filed as D1272.1

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Norse The Poetic Edda , VÖLUNDARKVITHA VÖLUNDARKVITHA
Literary Crystallization Four Plays (The Tempest, A Midsummer-Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, King Lear) — University Press Shakespeare, ed. Sidney Lee , The Tempest Act 2
Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter LVI LVI. The Public Expulsion of Evils
Finnish The Kalevala , Rune V
Norse The Poetic Edda , HOVAMOL HOVAMOL

Filed across the traditions

Irish Plummer clxxv, *Cross
India Thompson-Balys
Koryak Jochelson JE VI 364
Eskimo (Mackenzie Area) Jenness 79, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 177f., (West Hudson Bay): ibid. 308f.

Within the index

Filed under Magic circle.

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Line drawn by saint's bachall separates calves from their mothers. (Cf. D1272.1, D1277.) Self-fastening line. (Cf. D1272.1.)

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