Direction of river's flow magically reversed

Motif

Direction of river's flow magically reversed.

Magic. · Magic powers and manifestations. · Manifestations of magic power. · Miscellaneous magical manifestations. · Miscellaneous magical manifestations. · view the constellation · filed as D2151.2.1

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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 mythCross
KoreanZong in-Sob 70.
general *Loomis White Magic 40

Within the index

Filed under Magic control of rivers.

1 finer motif beneath it

River with flow magically divided. (Part stands still, rest flows.)

Filed beside it

Saint causes river to rise and overflow Rivers magically made dry. (Cf. D2165.2.)Saint causes a river to freeze over in summer Stream magically appears River magically widened

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