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Motif

Rejuvenation by burning.

Magic. · Magic powers and manifestations. · Manifestations of magic power. · Lasting magic qualities. · Magic rejuvenation. · view the constellation · filed as D1886

Filed across the traditions
  • Breton Sébillot Incidents s. v. "four"
  • German Hartung Zs. f. Vksk. VII 89, Piger ibid. X 84
  • Greek *Frazer Apollodorus I 121 n. 4 → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK I, ch. IX
  • India Thompson-Balys.
  • general *Type 753
  • general *BP III 198 (Gr. No. 147)
  • general *FB "ungdom" III 979
  • general *Dh II 154, 162ff., 288
  • general *Bolte Herrigs Archiv CII 241–266, CIV 355
  • general Köhler-Bolte I 298
  • general *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). – Icelandic: Ritterhaus 338
Within the index

Filed under Magic rejuvenation.

1 finer motif beneath it
Rejuvenation by burning and throwing bones into tub of milk. (Cf. D1338.4.)
Filed beside it
Magic self-rejuvenation Rejuvenation by supernatural person Eternal youth. (Cf. F167.9, F172.) Rejuvenation by dismemberment. (Cf. D1885.1.) Rejuvenation by boiling. (Cf. D1865.) Rejuvenation by bathing Miscellaneous means of rejuvenation
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Sleepless dragon Brazen-footed, fire-breathing bulls. (Cf. B15.6, B15.5) Animal languages learned from serpent (not eaten). (Cf. B176.) Bird language Grateful animals Helpful serpent Tabu: falsely claiming the powers of a god Transformation and disenchantment at will Power of self-transformation received from a god Magic ship. (Cf. D1121.) Magic drug renders invulnerable. (Cf. D1240.) Symplegades. Rocks that clash together at intervals. (Cf. D931.)
Carried in tale types

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