Magic object saves owner from death

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Magic object saves owner from death.

Magic. · Magic objects. · Function of magic objects. · Magic object rescues person. · view the constellation · filed as D1392

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

general *Kittredge Witchcraft 54f., 405 nn. 235–237. – Irish myth: *Cross.

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1 finer motif beneath it

Amulet saves one from death. (Cf. D1070.)

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