Saw for coffin-making sounds to announce death

Motif

Saw for coffin-making sounds to announce death.

Magic. · Magic objects. · Function of magic objects. · Magic objects effect changes in persons. · Magic object gives supernatural information. · view the constellation · filed as D1322.1

Filed across the traditions

North Carolina Brown Collection I 641.

Within the index

Filed under Magic object warns of death.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Hammer in coffin maker's shop makes noise to announce a death. (Cf. D1209.4.) Boards for coffin making mysteriously moved announces death

Filed beside it

Light moving toward cemetery as sign of death. (Cf. D1162.)

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