Calf of gold moves

Motif

Calf of gold moves.

Magic. · Magic objects. · Characteristics of magic objects. · Automatic magic objects. · Magic automata. · view the constellation · filed as D1639.5

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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.

Irish mythCross.

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Filed under Automata: other motifs.

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Automata as door-keepers Image of Virgin saves painter. Stretches forth hand and keeps him from falling Images at church turn backs as mark of disfavor. Done when abandoned woman or merman enters. (Cf. B82, D1622.)Statue laughs and reveals crime Carved image jumps at maker's command

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