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Motif

Magic invulnerability.

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

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“Aeneas, son of Anchises, and with him Archelochus and Acamas, sons of Antenor, and Theanus, leaders of ‘the Dardanians; of the Thracians, Acamas, son of Eusorus ; of the Cicones, Euphemus, son of Troezenus ; of the Paeonians, Pyraechmes; of the Paphlagonians, Pylaemenes, son of Bilsates; from Zelia, Pandarus, son of Lycaon ; from Adrastia, Adrastus and Amphius, sons of Merops; from Arisbe, Asius, son of Hyrtacus ; from Larissa,…”

— The Library (Bibliotheca), APOLLODORI BIBLIOTHECA, ch. 33 · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

On our shelf — the index’s citations, resolved to served chapters
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 10references

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.

  • IcelandicHerrmann Saxo II 312, *Boberg
  • GreekFrazer Apollodorus II 150 n. 1 → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), APOLLODORI BIBLIOTHECA, ch. 33
  • SwissJegerlehner Oberwallis 300 No. 5
  • Jewish*Neuman
  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • Buddhist mythMalalasekera II 287, 597. – Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 99, 417, Rasmussen II 260, III 105, 250
  • Africa (Zulu)Callaway 93, 233.
  • general **Otto Berthold Die Unverwundbarkeit in Sage und Aberglauben der Griechen (Giessen, 1911)
  • general cf. Zs. f. Vksk. XXI 415. Irish myth: *Cross
  • general Teheulche (Patagonian): Alexander Lat. Am. 336
Within the index
7 finer motifs beneath it
Magic invulnerability of saints. (Cf. Q162, V228.)Magic invulnerability of animalsMagic invulnerability of ogresInvulnerability from certain thingsInvulnerability for limited timeAttainment of invulnerability. (Cf. D1840.)Loss of invulnerability
Travels with
Attainment of invulnerability. (Cf. D1840.)Invulnerable berserk. (Cf. D1840.)Immunities of saints (holy men). (Cf. D1840.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Bag of winds. Wind is confined in a bag. Man breaks prohibition against looking into bag and releases windsTransformation: man to swineTransformation: woman to bitchTransformation: man to doveTransformation: man (woman) to almond treeTransformation by drinkingDisenchantment from tree form by embrace of loverMoly: magic plantMagic lotus plant. (Cf. D975.1.)Magic drinkMagic chairLotus causes forgetfulness. (Cf. D965.6, D2004.3.)

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