Magic power to see invisible creatures

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Magic power to see invisible creatures.

Magic. · Magic powers and manifestations. · Manifestations of magic power. · Lasting magic qualities. · Magic sight and hearing. · view the constellation · filed as D1825.3

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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.

SwissJegerlehner Oberwallis 297f. Nos. 1, 7
ScotchMacdougall and Calder 183, Lang English Fairy Tales 220
LithuanianBalys Index No. 3510.

Within the index

Filed under Kinds of magic sight.

4 finer motifs beneath it

Magic power of seeing Death at head or foot of bed and thus forecasting progress of sickness Man sees angels over the heads of the good and black stars over the bad Magic sight: ability to see the soul (astral body)Ability to see heavenly beings

Filed beside it

Second sight. Power to see future happenings. (Cf. D1812.)Magic power to see distant objects. (Cf. D1813.3, D1817.0.1, D1825.5.)Magic power to see concealed things. (Cf. D1817.)Magic power to see death circumstances of absent person Magic power to "see" who will die during coming year Magic sight of incident before it actually happens What religious ascetic sees as gold, ordinary people see as scorpions Witches have power to see distant sights

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