Vicious snakes easily controlled by saint

Motif

Vicious snakes easily controlled by saint.

Magic. · Magic powers and manifestations. · Manifestations of magic power. · Miscellaneous magical manifestations. · Miscellaneous magical manifestations. · view the constellation · filed as D2156.5

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

general *Loomis White Magic 63f.
general *Krappe Traditio V (1947) 323–330.

Within the index

Filed under Magic control over animals. (Cf. D2070.)

2 finer motifs beneath it

Saint orders a serpent which had bitten a man to withdraw its venom Snakes expelled from human body by saint's intervention

Filed beside it

Magic power to make does give milk. (Cf. B188.)Miraculous increasing of milk from one cow. (Cf. D1440.1, D2106.)Saint forces a beast (leopard, wolf) to bring back stolen child (domestic animal) to his mother (owner)Wild boar reprimanded about its maraudings by saint. The command is obeyed Saint destroys disastrous insects Saint orders the cicadas to sing the praises of God or be silent, because they disturb his preaching Wolf is forced by saint to be substitute for eaten calf Saint causes cuckoo to call in winter Horses (oxen) from sea put temporarily into man's service Saint kills lion with his slipper

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