Magic vegetable

Motif

Magic vegetable.

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

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

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

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

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

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 5672 recorded variants

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