μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Second sight. Power to see future happenings. (Cf. D1812.)

Magic. · Magic powers and manifestations. · Manifestations of magic power. · Lasting magic qualities. · Magic sight and hearing. · view the constellation · filed as D1825.1

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“And such well-being followed ever upon their footsteps, that in whatsoever lands they dwelt were good seasons and peace; and all believed that they caused these things, for the lords of the land perceived that they were unlike other men whom they had seen, both in fairness and also in wisdom. The fields and the choice lands in that place seemed fair to Odin, and he chose for himself the site of a city which is now called Sigtun.”

— The Prose Edda (Brodeur 1916), Prologue V · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

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Scholars’ trail — 8references

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.

  • ScotlandMacdougall and Calder 183, 251, 255, 281
  • IcelandicSnorra Edda Prol. V and Gylf. II, *Boberg → on our shelf: The Prose Edda (Brodeur 1916), Prologue V
  • Jewish*Neuman
  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • N. Am. Indian (Seneca)Curtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 478 No. 103, (Plains Ojibwa): Skinner JAFL XXXII 300.
  • general *Chauvin V 90 No. 28 n. 2
  • general *Fb "synsk", "spåkjælling", "spåmand", "gjenviser"
  • general *RTP XXVII *145, 151, 284, 382. Irish: Plummer clxx, *Cross
Within the index

Filed under Kinds of magic sight.

1 finer motif beneath it
Magic view of future lover
Filed beside it
Magic power to see distant objects. (Cf. D1813.3, D1817.0.1, D1825.5.)Magic power to see invisible creaturesMagic power to see concealed things. (Cf. D1817.)Magic power to see death circumstances of absent personMagic power to "see" who will die during coming yearMagic sight of incident before it actually happensWhat religious ascetic sees as gold, ordinary people see as scorpionsWitches have power to see distant sights
Travels with
Magic power of prophecy. (Cf. D1311.)

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