Magic vegetable — Mythoi

Motif

Magic vegetable.

Magic. · Magic objects. · Kinds of magic objects. · Magic fruits and vegetables. · view the constellation · filed as D983

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Hermetic / Alchemical The Hermetic Museum, Restored and Enlarged , Tract 18: The Three Treatises of Philalethes, I: The Metamorphosis of Metals
Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter LXIV LXIV. The Burning of Human Beings in the Fires
Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter XXVIII XXVIII. The Killing of the Tree-Spirit
Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter XXXIII XXXIII. The Gardens of Adonis

Cited in the index

general *Aarne MSFO XXV 143n., *BP III 6
general Type 567.

Within the index

Filed under Magic fruits and vegetables.

5 finer motifs beneath it

Magic bean Magic yam Magic leek Magic garlic Magic egg-plant

Filed beside it

Magic fruit Magic nut

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Magic vegetable (as food). (Cf. D983.) Magic vegetable causes horns to grow on person. (Cf. D983.) Transformation by eating vegetable. (Cf. D983.)

Carried in tale types

The Magic Bird-heart · ATU 567 2 recorded variants

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