Magic elevator. Stone on which one steps carries one underground. (Cf. D931.) — Mythoi

Motif

Magic elevator. Stone on which one steps carries one underground. (Cf. D931.)

Magic. · Magic objects. · Function of magic objects. · Magic object affords miraculous transportation. · view the constellation · filed as D1539.1

Filed across the traditions

German Grimm No. 163. → on our shelf: Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 163

Within the index

Filed under Miscellaneous forms of magic transportation.

Filed beside it

Magic belt carries tree away. (Cf. D1057.) Magic staves enable man to gain precipitous height. (Cf. D1254.)

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Magic rock (stone)

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Man carried on goat's horns. (Goat is transformed man.) Transformation: man to goat (he-goat, she-goat, kid etc.) Transformation: man to smoke Castle magically made smaller Men transformed to animals fight Disenchantment by being wakened from magic sleep by proper agent Magic rock (stone) Dwarfs clad in motley Dwarfs' house of reeds Subterranean world Night spent in tree. Hero goes into tree to spend the night Suitors assigned quests

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