Saint invulnerable to poison

Motif

Saint invulnerable to poison.

Magic. · Magic powers and manifestations. · Manifestations of magic power. · Lasting magic qualities. · Magic invulnerability. · view the constellation · filed as D1840.1.2

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Spanish ExemplaKeller.

Within the index

Filed under Magic invulnerability of saints. (Cf. Q162, V228.)

1 finer motif beneath it

Poisoned drink or food made harmless by saint's blessing

Filed beside it

Magic invulnerability of saint enables him to break poisonous snakes in bare hands St. Cecilia withstands three blows of beheading sword and lives three days after

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Man proof against poison. (Cf. D1840.1.2.)

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