Automatic hen and chickens of gold

Motif

Automatic hen and chickens of gold.

Magic. · Magic objects. · Characteristics of magic objects. · Automatic magic objects. · Magic automata. · view the constellation · filed as D1620.2.2

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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 Jones PMLA XXIII 563. Italian: Basile introduction.

Within the index

Filed under Automatic statue of animal.

1 finer motif beneath it

Silver cock, sitting on a flower, crows

Filed beside it

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