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Transformation: statue comes to life.

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“Often will my heart-strings quiver When I rest within my chamber, When I wake at dreamy midnight, Half-unconscious, vainly searching For my noble wife departed.” Wifeless lived the mourning blacksmith, Altered in his form and features; Wept one month and then another, Wept three months in full succession. Then the magic metal-worker Gathered gold from deeps of ocean, Gathered silver from the mountains, Gathered many heaps of birch-wood.”

The Kalevala, Rune XXXVII · served from our shelf

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  • FinnishThe Kalevala, Rune XXXVIIThompson cites: cf. Kalevala rune 37
Scholars’ trail — 21references

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  • Finnishcf. Kalevala rune 37 → on our shelf: The Kalevala, Rune XXXVII
  • GermanicMacCulloch Eddic 188
  • BretonSébillot Incidents s. v. "statue"
  • LithuanianBalys Index No. *701
  • HinduBenfey Panchatantra I 490
  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • BabylonianMeissner Babylonien und Assyrien II 96
  • JewishNeuman
  • IndonesianDeVries's list No. 184, Dixon 200, *201 n. 38
  • German New Guineaibid. 141
  • Australianibid. 274
  • Eskimo (Bering Strait)Nelson RBAE XVIII 479, 485, 497, (Central Eskimo): Boas RBAE VI 619, (Koryak): Jochelson JE VI 22, 286, 370
  • N. Am. IndianThompson Tales 357 n. 287i, Hatt Asiatic Influences 97.
  • general *Type 945, cf. Type 165*
  • general *BP III 53 n. 2
  • general D. E. MacKay The Double Invitation in the Legend of Don Juan (1943)
  • general *Loomis White Magic 81
  • general Hdwb. d. Märchens s. v. "Baum"
  • general Köhler-Bolte I 531. Greek: Fox 200 (Galateia)
  • general Semitic: bin Gorion Born Judas V 180ff.
  • general Torres Straits: Dixon 142 n. 25
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