Deer of gold and jewels possessing life

Motif

Deer of gold and jewels possessing life.

Magic. · Magic objects. · Characteristics of magic objects. · Automatic magic objects. · Magic automata. · view the constellation · filed as D1620.2.3

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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 Penzer IX 9 n. 1, 28ff.

Within the index

Filed under Automatic statue of animal.

1 finer motif beneath it

Magic journey on back of flying golden deer. (Cf. D1520.)

Filed beside it

Automatic statue of horse. (Cf. D1626.1.)Automatic hen and chickens of gold Automatic statue of lion Automatic figures on harp – birds, serpents, hounds Automatic metal (jewel) fish Plough of gold and yoke of gold and pair of bullocks used by hero tills as much land as lies within a village boundary in one day Automatic statue of dog Automatic brazen serpent

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