Magic garden — Mythoi

Motif

Magic garden.

Magic. · Magic objects. · Kinds of magic objects. · Magic gardens and plants. · view the constellation · filed as D961

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Literary Crystallization Faust: A Tragedy , Second Part, Act 1
Slavic Russian Folk-Tales , Chapter IV
Hermetic / Alchemical The Hermetic Museum, Restored and Enlarged , Tract 21: The Golden Calf (John Frederick Helvetius)
Irish Old Celtic Romances: Translated from the Gaelic , Tale 2 THE FATE OF THE CHILDREN OF TURENN;
Hermetic / Alchemical The Hermetic Museum, Restored and Enlarged , Tract 18: The Three Treatises of Philalethes, I: The Metamorphosis of Metals

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys
Africa (Benga) Nassau 208 No. 33.
general *Type 550
general BP II 232. Irish myth: *Cross
general Penzer I 66f.
general N. Am. Indian (Tsimshian): Boas RBAE XXXI 182

Within the index

Filed under Magic gardens and plants.

1 finer motif beneath it

Garden produced by magic. (Cf. D2178.)

Filed beside it

Magic vineyard Magic bush. (Cf. D960, D965.) Magic plant Magic roots Magic seed Magic grains Magic plant-sap Magic flower Magic thorn Magic stalk Magic herbs. (Cf. D965.)

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Summer and winter garden. Garden which blooms in winter. (Cf. D961.) Magic garden grows at once. (Cf. D961.) Garden that has not bloomed for twelve years does so when girl steps into it. (Cf. D961.)

Carried in tale types

Bird, Horse and Princess (previously Search for the Golden Bird) · ATU 550 20 recorded variants

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