Moments thought years. In a moment a person seems to experience events of many years

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Moments thought years. In a moment a person seems to experience events of many years.

Magic. · Magic powers and manifestations. · Manifestations of magic power. · Temporary magic characteristics. · Magic forgetfulness. · view the constellation · filed as D2012

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.
general Hartland Science 226f.
general Wesselski Märchen 255 No. 65
general *Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXV (1933) 114f., Scandinavian Studies 19 (1947) 217–224

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Filed under Magic forgetfulness.

2 finer motifs beneath it

King in the bath; years of experience in a moment. This illusion takes place when the king puts his head under water Wizard gives man the illusion that he has been away twenty (forty) years

Filed beside it

Forgotten fiancée. Young husband visiting his home breaks tabu and forgets his wife. Later she succeeds in reawakening his memory. (For details of the ways in which the memory is lost and regained see D2004 and D2006 Means of bringing about magic forgetfulness Magic reawakening of memory. (Cf. D1360, D1910.)Years thought days. (Cf. F379.5.) Years spent in the other world or asleep seem as days because of magic forgetfulness

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