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Magic cure of broken limbs.

Magic. · Magic powers and manifestations. · Manifestations of magic power. · Miscellaneous magical manifestations. · Miscellaneous magical manifestations. · view the constellation · filed as D2161.3.3

Scholars’ trail — 3 references (open)

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 myth *Cross
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • Eskimo (Mackenzie Area) Jenness 43.
Within the index

Filed under Magic cure of physical defect.

1 finer motif beneath it
Witch burns her child's legs for wood, then covers child with sheet and child is whole
Filed beside it
Blindness magically cured. (Cf. D1505.) Magic restoration of severed hand Baldness magically cured Deafness magically cured Dumbness magically cured. (Cf. D2020.) Lameness magically cured Insanity magically cured. (Cf. D2065.) Bad breath magically cured Sterility magically cured Barrenness magically cured. (Cf. D1347.2, D1501.1, D1925.1.)

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