μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Automatic statue of animal.

Magic. · Magic objects. · Characteristics of magic objects. · Automatic magic objects. · Magic automata. · view the constellation · filed as D1620.2

Scholars’ trail — 2 references (open)

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.

  • Jewish Neuman
  • India Thompson-Balys.
Within the index

Filed under Magic automata. Statues or images that act as if alive. (Cf. D1523.2.8.)

9 finer motifs beneath it
Automatic statue of horse. (Cf. D1626.1.) Automatic hen and chickens of gold Deer of gold and jewels possessing life 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
Filed beside it
Automatic doll. (Cf. D1268.) Automatic statue of man Other automatic constructions Image renders judgments Image indicates favor to suppliant. (Cf. D1639.3, V120.) Image dresses self. (Cf. D1268, V120.) Image bleeds Statue weeps Image flies through air Dancing automata. (Cf. D1646.) City populated by wooden automata Images of animals ridden (driven) Images open and close eyes Image eats or drinks Golem. Automatic statue animated by insertion of written magic formula into an opening Automata: other motifs
Travels with
Self-luminous artificial boar. (Cf. D1620.2.)

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