μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Magic tree.

Magic. · Magic objects. · Kinds of magic objects. · Magic tree. · view the constellation · filed as D950

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • German Grimm No. 123 → on our shelf: Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 123
  • Persian Carnoy 281, Coyajee JPASB XXIV 185f., 194
  • Chinese Ferguson 104, Eberhard FFC CXX 46. – Indonesian: Dixon 238 n. 51
  • Quiché Alexander Lat. Am. 172
  • N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 297 n. 86a, (Seneca): Curtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 391 No. 70
  • Africa (Zulu) Callaway 146, 218, (Upoto): Einstein 123.
  • general *Types 330, 510, 511
  • general BP II 188 n. 1
  • general Dh II 10, 30ff.
  • general A. F. Schmidt Hultrær i Danmark (Danske Studier 1932 33ff.)
  • general Köhler Aufsätze 19ff.: *Fb "træ" III 866a, 867a
  • general Chauvin VII 95 No. 375
  • general Penzer I 144, *VIII 69 n. 1. Irish: Plummer cliii, *Cross
Within the index
29 finer motifs beneath it
Magic tree guarded by serpent (dragon) coiled around its roots Magic tree at bottom of lake Magic hazel tree Magic oak tree Magic peach tree Magic cherry tree Magic pear tree Magic ash tree (quicken, rowan) Magic lime tree Magic fig tree Magic olive tree Magic apple tree Magic alder tree Magic birch tree Magic hawthorn Magic yew tree Magic bamboo tree Magic nut tree Magic laurel tree Magic cedar tree Magic palm tree Tree produced by magic. [Inadvertant duplication of D2178.8.] Magic tree-bark Magic twig +5 more
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Oracular tree. (Cf. D950.) Blinded trickster directed by trees. He asks them their names and by their answers he can tell where he is. (Cf. D950.) Rejuvenation by fruit of magic tree. (Cf. D950.) Year added to life by eating fruit of magic tree. (Cf. D950.) Tree of immortality. (Cf. D950.) Fruit of magic tree exhilarating. (Cf. D950, D981.) Tree of delusion. (Cf. D950.) Tree opens and conceals fugitive. (Cf. D950.) Tree points way to fugitive but misdirects enemy. (Cf. D950.) Tree from which one cannot descend. (Cf. D950.) Magic tree furnishes treasure. (Cf. D950.) Tree with silver branches. (Cf. D950, F811.1.2.) Magic wishing-tree. (Cf. D950.) Provisions received from magic tree. (Cf. D950.) Magic stump supplies drink. (Cf. D950.) Magic tree heals. (Cf. D950.) Magic tree bears prophylactic fruit. (Cf. D950.) Wounds healed by eating fruit of magic tree. (Cf. D950.) Tree restores sight. (Cf. D950.) Transportation by hollow tree. (Cf. D950, D1532.7.) Self-opening tree-trunk. (Cf. D950.) Tree opens its trunk to give shelter to abandoned girls. (Cf. D950.) Felled tree raises itself again. (Cf. D950.) Chips from tree return to their places as cut. (Cf. D950.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Disenchantment by ring Provisions received from magic tree. (Cf. D950.) Witch lives in forest Witch transforms person to animal. (Cf. D100.) Witch transforms man to tree

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