μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Spring made by magic.

Magic. · Magic objects. · Kinds of magic objects. · Magic body of Water. · view the constellation · filed as D927.1

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
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.

  • French Canadian Barbeau JAFL XXIX 12
  • Jewish *Neuman.
  • general P. Saintyves Le Miracle de l'apparition des eaux (Revue de l'Université de Bruxelles 1912, 265–94). Germanic: De la Saussaye 254 (Balder)
Within the index

Filed under Magic spring. (Cf. D925, D926.)

1 finer motif beneath it
Saint causes water to issue from cut in a tree
Filed beside it
Magic spring guarded by demons (monsters) Spring augments milk of nursing mothers who drink its water Spring follows saint to his country Spring runs dry (as result of fratricide)
Travels with
Stroke of staff brings water from rock. (Cf. D927.1, D1254.)

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