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Motif

Magic journey.

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

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Italian Novella Rotunda
  • Jewish Neuman
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • Chinese Ferguson 128
  • Eskimo (Greenland) Rasmussen I 219
  • Africa (Benga) Nassau 214 No. 33.
  • general *Type 400
  • general *Huet RTP XXXII 97, 145
  • general Wesselski Theorie 23. Irish myth: Cross
Within the index

Filed under Magic transportation.

15 finer motifs beneath 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 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
Filed beside it
Journey with magic speed Magic journey over water Magic underwater journey Magic underground journey Magic air journey Objects magically moved Natural law suspended
Carried in tale types

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