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Magic journey by making distance vanish. The road is contracted or the earth folded up.

Magic. · Magic powers and manifestations. · Manifestations of magic power. · Other manifestations of magic power. · Magic transportation. · view the constellation · filed as D2121.4

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“A deliverer was sent to them in the person of Jonayafyin, the son of the old woman who lives in the West, and the second wife of the Sun. She divided her time between the Sun and the Water-fall, and by the latter bore a second son, named Ko- bachischini, who remained with his mother while his brother went forth to battle with the enemies of mankind. In four days Jonayafyin grew to manhood,™ then he asked his mother where the Elk lived.”

Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 43 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
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.

  • Africa (Upoto)Einstein 134
  • N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 315 n. 145c
  • Eskimo (Greenland)Rasmussen III 247.
  • general *Chauvin V 231 No. 130. Jewish: Neuman
Within the index

Filed under Magic journey.

Filed beside it
Magic journey by wishing. (Cf. D1761.)Magic journey with closed eyes. Person must not open eyes while on the journey. (Cf. C300.)Magic journey through power of imaginationMagic journey: man carried by spirit or devilMagic journey during which one must not think good or evilMagic journey in cloud. (Cf. D2135.)Magic journey by throwing knife into whirlwindMagic transportation from kick of a horseMagic journey on sunbeamMagic journey: man left on land appears in shipPower to go through closed doorsSailing in a leaky boat without sinkingSaint rides on thorn tree and drags its roots through earth to dig out canalMagic compulsion to make journey
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Thunderbird. A mythical giant bird usually thought of as a thunder-godRoc. A giant bird which carries off men in its clawsHelpful animal. See also entire section B300–599, especially B350Grateful animalsHelpful wild beasts – felidaeAnimal nurse. Animal nourishes abandoned childBat rescues man from height. Bat lets him down in a spider-web basketMagic footwearMagic arrowMagic ballMagic bone gives advice. (Cf. D1013.)Miraculous speed from magic object

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