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Magic private parts – human.

Magic. · Magic objects. · Kinds of magic objects. · Magic bodily members. · Magic bodily members – human. · view the constellation · filed as D998

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“The birds assented and returned to the shore, when all retreated a short distance away from the lake to an open space where they might dance. Manabozho removed the bundle of bark froni his back and placed it on the ground, got out his singing-sticks, and said to the birds, “Now, all of you dance around me asI drum; sing as loudly as you can, and keep your eyes closed. The first one to open his eyes will forever have them red and sore.””

— Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 24 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
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 Taylor MLN XXXI (1916) 249 n. 2
  • general Gaster Thespis 327. – N. Am. Indian: *Thompson Tales 296 nn. 83a, 83b.
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Filed under Magic bodily members – human.

Filed beside it
Magic hairMagic headMagic eye. See references to D2071Magic footMagic handMagic internal organs – humanMagic spittleMagic excrementsMagic blood – humanMagic tearsMagic breathMagic buttocksMagic bone (human). (Cf. D1013.)Magic human fleshMagic bodily members (human) – miscellaneous
Travels with
Speaking privates. Man given advice by his private parts. (Cf. D998.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Magic excrementsMagic object gives adviceBodily members as advisers. (Cf. D990.)Magic object points out roadBlinded trickster directed by trees. He asks them their names and by their answers he can tell where he is. (Cf. D950.)Magic swallow-skin warns of danger. (Cf. D1025.4.)Speaking plant. (Cf. D965, F815.)Talking private parts betray unchastityPicture mistaken for originalCreaking limbs. Numskull hears limbs creaking in the wind. He is sorry for them and holds them apart. While he is caught between them his enemies take advantage of himRaven steals the robes of Red Willow Men and finds them uselessDeception into entering bag

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