Magic power to walk on water

Motif

Magic power to walk on water.

Magic. · Magic powers and manifestations. · Manifestations of magic power. · Other manifestations of magic power. · Magic transportation. · view the constellation · filed as D2125.1

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Scholars’ trail — 9references

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.

IcelandicBoberg
U.S.Baughman
IndiaThompson-Balys
Buddhist mythMalalasekera II 112
Eskimo (Greenland)Rink 123, 407, Rasmussen III 192.
general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 332
general *Saintyves Essais 307ff.
general *Toldo VI 310ff.
general Cowell Jātaka II 77. Irish: Plummer xxxi, cxlvii, Cross

Within the index

Filed under Magic journey over water.

1 finer motif beneath it

Magic transportation by waves

Filed beside it

Saint causes earth to rise underfoot, enabling him to cross water Saint drives over bog as over land Magic transportation on a sheet of ice Person crosses water in chariot

Carried in tale types

A Pious Innocent Man Knows Nothing of God (previously A Shepherd Knows Nothing of God) · ATU 8271 recorded variant

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