Magic longevity

Motif

Magic longevity.

Magic. · Magic powers and manifestations. · Manifestations of magic power. · Lasting magic qualities. · Immortality. · view the constellation · filed as D1857

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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.

Irish myth*Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Immortality. (Cf. D1346.)

2 finer motifs beneath it

Old woman has lived for ages Two hundred years of unfailing life and happiness offered to warrior by fairy woman in exchange for one day's delay of battle

Filed beside it

Immortality useless without eternal youth Woman changes into an immortal Immortality bestowed Immortality exchanged. Wounded Centaur immortal but cannot be cured. He gives away his immortality to Prometheus and is thus allowed to die Giant immortal so long as he touches land of his birth Time of death postponed. (Cf. D1345, D1857.)Death evaded. Person enters on the next life without dying

Travels with

Time of death postponed. (Cf. D1345, D1857.)Magic aging. (Cf. D1857.)Resuscitation after great length of time. (Cf. D1857.)

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