μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Magic bag (sack) supplies food. (Cf. D1193.)

Magic. · Magic objects. · Function of magic objects. · Magic object as provider. · view the constellation · filed as D1472.1.22

Filed across the traditions
  • Chinese Eberhard FFC CXX 106
  • Eskimo (Greenland) Rasmussen I 368, III 247, Rink 401.
  • general *Types 563, 564
  • general *Aarne JSFO XXVII 1–96 passim
  • general BP I 349ff.
  • general *Chauvin V 259, 272 No. 154
  • general *Kittredge Witchcraft 165, 483 nn. 14–16. – India: *Thompson-Balys
Within the index

Filed under Food or drink received directly from magic object.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Man compels food to enter magic sack Saint's inexhaustible sack of wheat
Filed beside it
Fountain miraculously supports life. (Cf. D925.) Stone provides food. (Cf. D931.) Magic tree supplies food Vegetable supporting life without other food. (Cf. D1034.) Magic palace supplies food and drink. (Cf. D1132.) Magic kitchen supplies food and drink. (Cf. D1141.1.) Magic table supplies food and drink. (Cf. D1153.) Magic table-cloth supplies food and drink. (Cf. D1153.1.) Magic pot supplies food and drink. (Cf. D1171.1.) Magic coffee-pot supplies drink. (Cf. D1171.1.1.) Magic cauldron supplies food. (Cf. D1171.2.) Magic kettle supplies food. (Cf. D1171.3.) Magic pitcher supplies drink. (Cf. D1171.4.) Magic cup supplies drink. (Cf. D1171.6.) Magic tankard supplies drink. (Cf. D1171.6.1.) Magic glass supplies drink. (Cf. D1171.6.2.)
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Magic bag (sack)
Carried in tale types

ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “supplies” · wander