Image bleeds — Mythoi

Motif

Image bleeds.

Magic. · Magic objects. · Characteristics of magic objects. · Automatic magic objects. · Magic automata. · view the constellation · filed as D1624

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

JewishNeuman
IndiaThompson-Balys
Eskimo (Greenland)Rink 459.

Within the index

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

2 finer motifs beneath it

Image of Christ bleeds from thrown stone Wounds of crucifix bleed

Filed beside 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.)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

Statue sheds tears of blood. (Cf. D1624.)

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