Magic rock (stone) — Mythoi

Motif

Magic rock (stone).

Magic. · Magic objects. · Kinds of magic objects. · Magic land features. · view the constellation · filed as D931

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Filed across the traditions

German Grimm No. 163 → on our shelf: Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 163
Irish Plummer clv–clvii, *Cross
Swiss Jegerlehner 309 No. 9
Icelandic Boberg
Jewish *Neuman
Chinese Graham, Werner 383. – Aztec: Alexander Lat. Am. 118 → on our shelf: Myths & Legends of China, Chapter XV
N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 275 n. 15
general *Type 593, 870A
general Köhler-Bolte I 114, 572
general *Fb "sten" III 553a, 554a, "ønske" III 1178b
general Hartland Science 242
general *Penzer III 161 n. 1, 162 n., V 177
general Reinhart PMLA XXXVIII 458 n. 108. Greek: Fox 111, 137, (modern): Hahn No. 34
general Southern Paiute: Lowie JAFL XXXVII 143f. No. 15. Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 366, (Kaffir): Theal 36, 161, (Angola): Chatelain 47 (version B), (Zulu): Callaway 143, (Fang): Trilles Légendes 140, Einstein 99.

Within the index

Filed under Magic land features.

6 finer motifs beneath it

Stone produced by magic Stones fixed in the earth have certain magic powers Stone on which saint is baptized (is born) has magic powers Magic stone as amulet. (Cf. D1274.1.) Magic coal Magic pebble

Filed beside it

Magic mountain Magic sink-hole Magic turf Magic earth (soil) Magic island Magic plain

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Stone gives magic wisdom. (Cf. D931.) Oracular stone. (Cf. D931.) Stone reveals truth. (Cf. D931.) Magic stone gives warning. (Cf. D931.) Stone gives magic sight. (Cf. D931.) Magic stone causes blindness. (Cf. D931.) Magic stone causes deafness. (Cf. D931.) Stone blessed by saint banishes sorrow. (Cf. D931.) Magic stone gives invisibility. (Cf. D931.) Magic pebble prevents burning. (Cf. D931.) Magic blue stone protects against frost. (Cf. D931.) Magic stone keeps flood from overflowing earth. (Cf. A1010, D931, D1389.1.) Magic stone protects church from oppression. (Cf. D931, V111.) Magic stone (jewel) gives victory. (Cf. D931.) Magic stone hits everything and returns by itself. (Cf. D931.) Magic stone kills person whom it strikes. (Cf. D931.) Magic adhesive stone. Makes all who poke in fire stick and say "Fiddevav." (Cf. D931.) Magic stone turned thrice compels person to return to it. (Cf. D931.) Rock (stone) pursues person. (Cf. D931.) Magic stone furnishes wealth. (Cf. D931.) Magic stone turns everything to gold. (Cf. D1470.1.1., D931.) Magic wishing-stone. (Cf. D931.) Stone provides food. (Cf. D931.) Rock produces wine. Herder sees resemblance of stone to wine cask. He strikes it and wine flows. (Cf. D931, D1472.1.2.)

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Fox as alchemist Prophetic fox Fox as beast of ill-omen Helpful fox Man carried on goat's horns. (Goat is transformed man.) Animal shows man treasure Animal advises about investment Transformation: man to goat (he-goat, she-goat, kid etc.) Transformation: man to smoke Transformation: fox to person Transformation: objects to gold Transformation: brick (tile) to gold

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