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Kyffhäuser. King asleep in mountain (Barbarossa, King Marko, Holger Danske, etc.) will awake one day to succor his people.

Magic. · Magic powers and manifestations. · Manifestations of magic power. · Temporary magic characteristics. · Magic sleep. · view the constellation · filed as D1960.2

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Scholars’ trail — 12references

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.

  • LithuanianBalys Index No. 3595
  • ArmenianAnanikian 34
  • JewishNeuman
  • PersianCarnoy 327
  • IndiaThompson-Balys, Keith 173.
  • general *BP III 460
  • general *Feilberg Danske Studier (1920) 97ff.
  • general **Weltig Der Sagenkreis des Kyffhäusers (Bremen, 1891)
  • general *Wehrhan Die Sage 47ff.
  • general *Hartland Science 170ff.
  • general *Krappe "Die Sage vom König im Berge" (Mitt. d. schles. Gesell. f. Volkskunde XXX (1935) 76–102). – Celtic: MacCulloch Celtic 15, 180
  • general England, Scotland, U.S.: *Baughman
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Filed under Magic sleep.

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King asleep in mountain will awake when his horse's shoes are worn down. Every seven years the horse goes around the castle. He must wear his half-inch silver shoes to thinness of cat's ear before the king awakes
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Seven sleepers. (Rip Van Winkle.) Magic sleep extending over many yearsSleeping Beauty. Magic sleep for definite period (e.g., a hundred years)Deathlike sleepSleepless watcher magically put to sleep. Usually has a magic watchful eye, which remains awake while his many other eyes sleep. (Argus)Means of inducing magic sleep. (Cf. D1364.)Magic sleep induced by certain personGuardian magically made to sleep while girl goes to lover. (Cf. K1349.4, T30.)Person in magic sleep surrounded by protecting fireThree-fold magic sleep. Husband (lover) put to sleep by false bride. Only on the third night (the last chance) he wakesLover's magic sleep at rendezvous. A lover (husband) is to meet his mistress but magically oversleepsMagic sleep: in order to sleep off period of enchantmentDragon-fighter's magic sleep. While waiting for fight with dragon, hero falls into magic sleep. (Cf. D1962.2.)Experiences during magic sleepWaking from sleep

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