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Motif

Magic hair.

Magic. · Magic objects. · Kinds of magic objects. · Magic bodily members. · Magic bodily members – human. · view the constellation · filed as D991

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • French Canadian Barbeau JAFL XXIX 12
  • Spanish Boggs FFC XC 67 No. 508A*
  • Greek Frazer Apollodorus II 117 n. 3, Fox 69, 77 → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. XV
  • Jewish *Neuman
  • India Thompson-Balys. – N. Am. Indian (Mohegan): Speck JAFL XVI 106
  • Eskimo (Greenland) Rasmussen I 97
  • Africa (Kaffir) Theal 131.
  • general *Fb "guld" I 512a, "hår" I 771ab, "styrke" III 630a
  • general *Hdwb. d. Abergl. III 1274
  • general Köhler-Bolte I 126, 573
  • general *Penzer VIII 59 n. 3
  • general MacCulloch Childhood 211
  • general Chauvin V 230 No. 130
  • general *Wesselski Märchen 196
  • general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 150. Irish myth: Cross
  • general (Micmac): Rand 356, 369 Nos 67, 71, Leland 83, (Skidi Pawnee): Dorsey MAFLS VII 102, 113 Nos. 28, 31, (Wichita): Dorsey CI XXI No. 19, (Modoc): Curtin Myths of the Modocs (Boston 1912) 32, 46, (Ojibwa): Radin GSCan II 51
Within the index

Filed under Magic bodily members – human.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Magic beard Magic pubic hair Magic ball of hair
Filed beside it
Magic head Magic eye. See references to D2071 Magic foot Magic hand Magic internal organs – human Magic private parts – human Magic spittle Magic excrements Magic blood – human Magic tears Magic breath Magic buttocks Magic bone (human). (Cf. D1013.) Magic human flesh Magic bodily members (human) – miscellaneous
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Hair gives clairvoyance. (Cf. D991.) Magic hair produces love. (Cf. D991.) Magic hair in man's eyebrow kills all who see it. (Cf. D991.) Magic hair when thrown into fire summons supernatural. helper. (Cf. D991.) Magic hair summons demon. (Cf. D991.) Magic hairs summon giant. He gives hero some hairs from his own beard. (Cf. D991.) Magic hairs summon husband. (Cf. D991.) Magic hair draws back quiver from which it has been taken. (Cf. D991.) Magic hair stretches after fugitive. (Cf. D991.) Hair furnishes treasure. (Cf. D991.) Magic wishing hair. (Cf. D991.) Magic hair produces soldiers. (Cf. D991.) Magic transportation by hairs. (Cf. D991.) Magic hair cuts down iron tree. (Cf. D991.) Magic hair answers for fugitive. (Cf. D991.) Magic strength resides in hair. (Cf. D991.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Enchanted person. See also the entire section on transformation. No real difference seems to exist between transformation and enchantment. A bewitched or enchanted person may, however, retain his original physical form, but may be affected mentally or morally Soul (or life) kept in special part of body Person with wings on feet (head) Labyrinth. Series of rooms so confusing that one cannot find the way out Daughter pulls out father's magic life-containing hair. As soon as it is taken out he dies Treacherous daughter Child sacrificed to gain favor of gods Sacrifice to offended gods, who hold ship back

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