Magic extinguishing of fires. (Cf. D1656, Q492.)

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Magic extinguishing of fires. (Cf. D1656, Q492.)

Magic. · Magic powers and manifestations. · Manifestations of magic power. · Miscellaneous magical manifestations. · Miscellaneous magical manifestations. · view the constellation · filed as D2158.2

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Scholars’ trail — 6references

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.

IrishPlummer cxxxviii, *Cross
Icelandic*Boberg
Buddhist mythMalalasekera II 816
HawaiiBeckwith Myth 176.
general Köhler-Bolte I 417
general *Oertel Studien zur vgl. Littgsch. VIII 113

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Filed under Magic control of fires. (Cf. D1271.)

Filed beside it

Magic kindling of fire. (Cf. D1566.1.)

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Incombustible objects. (Cf. D1841.3; D2158.2; F979.5.)Woman must relight magic fires as punishment. Magician in revenge for ill-treatment causes the lights of the city to go out. They can be relighted only from the naked body of the woman in the public square. None can be relighted until all have applied their torches

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