Immortality by burning

Motif

Immortality by burning.

Magic. · Magic powers and manifestations. · Manifestations of magic power. · Lasting magic qualities. · Immortality. · view the constellation · filed as D1851.1

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Filed across the traditions

Greek Roscher Lexikon s. v. "Achilleus" I 24, Frazer Apollodorus II 69 n. 4, I 37 n. (burning and stripping off mortal flesh [Demophon]) *Carl-Martin Edsman Ignis Divinus: Le feu comme moyen de rajeunissement et d'immortalité (Publications of the New Society of Letters No. 34, Lund, 1949). → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. XIII

Within the index

Filed under Immortality bestowed.

Filed beside it

Immortality gained from bargain with Death Immortality bestowed by saint. (Cf. V220.) Immortality bestowed by Christ. (Cf. V211.) Immortality bestowed by deity

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Transformation: man to wild beast (mammal) Transformation: man to tiger Transformation: man to cuttlefish Transformation: man to serpent (snake). (Cf. B642.1.) Repeated transformation. Transformation into one form after another Magic meat Magic sword Magic strength-giving food. (Cf. D1030.) Protean transformation of water-spirit Dragon-tongue proof. Dragon slayer cuts out the tongues and uses them later to prove his identity as slayer Test of sex of man masking as girl: arms placed among baskets and war-trumpet sounded. Man snatches arms Man disguised as woman admitted to women's quarters: seduction

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