Images open and close eyes

Motif

Images open and close eyes.

Magic. · Magic objects. · Characteristics of magic objects. · Automatic magic objects. · Magic automata. · view the constellation · filed as D1632

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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 *Saintyves Les réliques et les images légendaires (Paris 1912) 84ff.
general ibid. Les images qui ouvrent et ferment les yeux (Revue de psychothérapie XXV 316–324).

Within the index

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

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.)Image bleeds Statue weeps Image flies through air Dancing automata. (Cf. D1646.)City populated by wooden automata Images of animals ridden (driven)Image eats or drinks Golem. Automatic statue animated by insertion of written magic formula into an opening Automata: other motifs

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