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Motif

Magic cure of wound. (Cf. D1503.)

Magic. · Magic powers and manifestations. · Manifestations of magic power. · Miscellaneous magical manifestations. · Miscellaneous magical manifestations. · view the constellation · filed as D2161.2

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““Then the blacksmith, Ilmarinen, Came to earth to work the metal; He was born upon the Coal-mount, Skilled and nurtured in the coal-fields; In one hand, a copper hammer, In the other, tongs of iron; In the night was born the blacksmith, In the morn he built his smithy, Sought with care a favored hillock, Where the winds might fill his bellows; Found a hillock in the swamp-lands, Where the iron hid abundant; There he built his smelting…”

— The Kalevala, Rune IX · served from our shelf

On our shelf — the index’s citations, resolved to served chapters
Scholars’ trail — 7references

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.

  • FinnishKalevala rune 9 → on our shelf: The Kalevala, Rune IX
  • EnglishWells 80 (Sir Tristrem)
  • Irish myth*Cross
  • JewishNeuman
  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • Buddhist mythMalalasekera II 1224
  • Eskimo (Greenland)Rink 113, 440.
Within the index

Filed under Magic healing power.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Steaks cut from live cow who heals herself by magicFlow of blood magically stopped. (Cf. D1504.)Magic cure of burns
Filed beside it
Magic cure for specific diseases. (Cf. D2161.5.2.5, D2161.5.2.6.)Magic cure of physical defectMethods of magic cureMagic cure by certain personDiseases cured at particular time
Travels with
Magic object heals woundWound healed only by person who gave it. (Or by member of his family.) (Cf. D2161.2.)

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