Magic head — Mythoi

Motif

Magic head.

Magic. · Magic objects. · Kinds of magic objects. · Magic bodily members. · Magic bodily members – human. · view the constellation · filed as D992

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

Irish myth*Cross
WelshMacCulloch Celtic 105
BretonSébillot Incidents s. v. "tête"
JewishNeuman.

Within the index

Filed under Magic bodily members – human.

5 finer motifs beneath it

Magic horns (grow on person's forehead). (Cf. D1011.1.)Magic lips Magic face Magic skull Magic tongue

Filed beside it

Magic hair 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

Divination by head (skull). (Cf. D992, D1610.5, M118.)Head of divinity as protection of land. Buried. (Cf. D992.)Magic (human) head defeats enemy. (Cf. D992.)Stream flows from man's head. (Cf. D992.)Powdered skull as remedy. (Cf. D992.)Magic head (of saint) heals diseases. (Cf. D992, D1500.1.13.)Self-returning head. When head is cut off it returns to proper place without harm to owner. (Cf. D992.)Speaking head. (Cf. D992.)Singing head. (Cf. D992.)Severed head moves from place to place. (Cf. D992.)Severed head cannot be moved from helmet. (Cf. D992.)Vital head. Retains life after being cut off. (Cf. D992, F511.)

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