Invulnerability from weapons

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Invulnerability from weapons.

Magic. · Magic powers and manifestations. · Manifestations of magic power. · Lasting magic qualities. · Magic invulnerability. · view the constellation · filed as D1841.5

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

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Filed under Invulnerability from certain things.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Man proof against weapons Magic animal proof against weapons Axe will not cut man, however much he strikes himself

Filed beside it

Man proof against iron, stone, and wood Man proof against boiling water Burning magically evaded. (Cf. D1656.)Man proof against wet. (Cf. D1524.1, D1540, D1551, D2125, D2151.)Immunity from drowning. (Cf. F222.1.1.)Magic animal proof against hound Man proof against poison. (Cf. D1840.1.2.)Invulnerability from demons

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