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Motif

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

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

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross.
  • general **A. Chapuis and Ed. Gélis Le monde des automates (2 vols. Paris 1928)
  • general *E. Faral Recherches sur les sources latines des contes et romans courtois du moyen age (Paris, 1913) 328ff.
  • general *M Hallauer Das wunderbare Element in den Chansons de Geste (Basel diss., 1918)
  • general *Dickson 193 n. 75, 197 n. 80
  • general *Baum PMLA XXXIV 533
  • general *Liebrecht 88
  • general **Bruce Human Automata in Classical Tradition and Mediaeval Romance (MPh X 511)
  • general *Penzer III 56ff., 212 n. 1, IX 9 n., 149
  • general *Reinhard PMLA XXXVIII 436 n. 41
Within the index
17 finer motifs beneath it
Automatic doll. (Cf. D1268.) Automatic statue of man Automatic statue of animal 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 (Thompson’s cf.)
Magic boat is rowed by two wooden figures as soon as it is put on water. (Cf. D1524, D1620.) Talking statue, when destroyed, cannot be replaced for thirty thousand years. (Cf. D1268, D1620.) Barking of brazen dogs causes forgetfulness. (Cf. D1620.) Vital objects. Objects that have life in them. (Cf. D1620, D1640.)

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