Speaking excrements. (Cf. D1022, D1026.)

Motif

Speaking excrements. (Cf. D1022, D1026.)

Magic. · Magic objects. · Characteristics of magic objects. · Automatic magic objects. · Magic speaking objects. · view the constellation · filed as D1610.6.4

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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 S. Am. Indian (Mataco, Amazon, Guiana, Tembé): Métraux MAFLS XL 122
general Africa (Nigeria): Herskovits JAFL XLIV 466 No. 7. See also many references to D1611.

Within the index

Filed under Speaking privates. Man given advice by his private parts. (Cf. D998.)

Filed beside it

Speaking vulva. Man has power to make vulvas speak. This is used as a chastity test Mentula loquens. A man's member speaks and can be silenced only by his mother-in-law Speaking buttocks. (Cf. D999, D1317.1.)

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