Sea turns to ice to permit flight — Mythoi

Motif

Sea turns to ice to permit flight.

Magic. · Transformation. · Miscellaneous transformation incidents. · Magic flight. · view the constellation · filed as D675

Filed across the traditions

Eskimo (Greenland) Rasmussen I 328, 367, III 124, 260, Rink 195, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 182.

Within the index

Filed under Magic flight.

Filed beside it

Transformation flight. Fugitives transforms themselves in order to escape detection by the pursuer Obstacle flight. Fugitives throw objects behind them which magically become obstacles in pursuer's path Reversed obstacle flight. Magic obstacles raised in front of fugitive Magic flight with the help of a he-goat. Speaking he-goat saves the girl promised to the devil

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