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Magic journey with closed eyes. Person must not open eyes while on the journey. (Cf. C300.)

Magic. · Magic powers and manifestations. · Manifestations of magic power. · Other manifestations of magic power. · Magic transportation. · view the constellation · filed as D2121.2

Filed across the traditions
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • Chinese Graham, Eberhard FFC CXX 234f.
  • Japanese Ikeda
  • N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 338 n. 217
  • Eskimo (Greenland) Rasmussen II 14, III 103, 124, 257, Rink 147, 196, 219, (Bering Strait): Nelson RBAE XVIII 511, (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 52, (Smith Sound): Kroeber JAFL XII 171, (Central Eskimo): Boas RBAE VI 629.
  • general *Chauvin VII 59 No. 77. 102 No. 376, VIII 148 No. 146
  • general Hartland Science 174 (Japanese). Irish myth: Cross
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Filed under Magic journey.

Filed beside it
Magic journey by wishing. (Cf. D1761.) Magic journey through power of imagination Magic journey by making distance vanish. The road is contracted or the earth folded up Magic journey: man carried by spirit or devil Magic journey during which one must not think good or evil Magic journey in cloud. (Cf. D2135.) Magic journey by throwing knife into whirlwind Magic transportation from kick of a horse Magic journey on sunbeam Magic journey: man left on land appears in ship Power to go through closed doors Sailing in a leaky boat without sinking Saint rides on thorn tree and drags its roots through earth to dig out canal Magic compulsion to make journey
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
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