Object magically attaches itself to a person

Motif

Object magically attaches itself to a person.

Magic. · Magic powers and manifestations. · Manifestations of magic power. · Miscellaneous magical manifestations. · Miscellaneous magical manifestations. · view the constellation · filed as D2171.1

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross
India Thompson-Balys
Japanese Ikeda
Africa (Ekoi) Talbot 394, (Gold Coast): Barker and Sinclair 66 No. 9.

Within the index

Filed under Magic adhesion. (Cf. D1413.)

3 finer motifs beneath it

Seat (chair) caused to stick to person. (Cf. D1413.6.) Tankard caused to stick to person's lips Person magically sticks to floor (ground)

Filed beside it

Magic adhesion to monster (witch, ogre, etc.). (Old Man of the Sea, Burr-Woman.) Magic adhesion to animal. (Cf. F155.) Objects magically stick together. (Cf. D1413.) Persons magically stick together. (Cf. D1171.2, D1413.14.) Clothes cling supernaturally to body Man's feet fixed to pavement so that he cannot move until he makes vow Witch causes milk to stay in overturned pail

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Magic adhesion to object as punishment (for opposition to holy person). (Cf. D2171.1, Q227.)

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