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Magic fountain. (Cf. D926, D927.)

Magic. · Magic objects. · Kinds of magic objects. · Magic body of Water. · view the constellation · filed as D925

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“Then he went out and along the course that the racers were to go over, and hid himself, leaving his head just sticking out of a hole. By this time all the racers had started, and among them Coyote’s son. He was Coyote’s only child, and was very quick. He soon began to outstrip all the runners, and was in the lead. As he passed the spot where Rattlesnake had hidden himself, however, Rattlesnake raised oe en and bit the boy in the ankle.”

— Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 8 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 12references

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.

  • BretonSébillot Incidents s. v. "fontaine"
  • French CanadianBarbeau JAFL XXIX 10–12
  • TirolZingerle 588
  • JewishNeuman
  • N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 284 n. 50a.
  • general *Dh II 154
  • general *Wünsche Die Sagen vom Lebensbaum und Lebenswasser (Leipzig, 1905)
  • general *Hopkins JAOS XXVI 1–67, 411–413
  • general *Fb "ungdom" III 979b
  • general Penzer IV 145
  • general *Patch PMLA XXXIII 670 n. 67. – Irish myth: *Cross, Plummer cl–clii, clxxii
  • general Lat. American: Alexander Lat. Am. 20 n. 6, 349.
Within the index

Filed under Magic body of Water.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Magic oil-spouting fountainMiraculous well yielding milk, beer or wineFountain magically madeFountain is inhabited by sacred oracular fish
Filed beside it
Magic seaMagic riverMagic lake (pond)Magic well. (Cf. D925, D927.)Magic spring. (Cf. D925, D926.)Magic water-hole
Travels with
Oracular fountain. (Cf. D925.)Magic fountain indicates road for saint by removing itself. (Cf. D925.)Fountain of youth. (Cf. D925, D926, D927, D1341.1.) Water from certain fountain rejuvenatesMagic fountain makes person old. (Cf. D925, D1338.1.1.)Fountain of immortality. (Cf. D925, D926, D927, D1341.1, D1338.1.1.)Fountain causes magic sleep. (Cf. D925.)Water from magic fountain kills. (Cf. D925.)Magic fountain produces gold. (Cf. D925.)Fountain miraculously supports life. (Cf. D925.)Magic healing fountain. (Cf. D925, V134.)Magic fountain restores sight. (Cf. D925.)Magic fountain causes storm (rain). (Cf. D925, D926, D2143.1.)Fountain insures favorable wind when drained. (Cf. D925.)Fountain (well) removes itself. (Cf. D925, D926, D927, D941.)Fountain magically dries up. (Cf. D925.)Magic results from bathing. (Cf. D562, D925, D2161.4.14.)Location of fountain revealed in dream. (Cf. D925, D925.1, D1731.)Magic well. (Cf. D925, D927.)Magic spring. (Cf. D925, D926.)Extraordinary fountain. (Cf. D925.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Hierarchy of worlds. A series of worlds, one above the otherWorld-tree. Tree extending from lowest to highest world. (Cf. A878.)World-columns. Four (two, etc.) columns or supports sustain the earthAtlas. A man supports the earth on his shouldersDeluge. Inundation of whole world or sectionFlood from fluids of the bodyFlood from belly. It flows from pierced belly of monsterWorld-fire. A conflagration destroys the earth. Sometimes (as with the flood legends) the tradition is somewhat local and does not refer to an actual destruction of the whole earth; sometimes the fire marks the end of the worldCreation of manConfusion of tongues. Originally all men speak same language. Because of a sin they come to speak different languagesOrigin of deathDistribution of tribes

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