Other extraordinary events — Mythoi

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Other extraordinary events.

Marvels. · Extraordinary occurrences. · Other extraordinary events. · view the constellation · filed as F1010

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Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 10
Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 18
Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 26
Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 4
Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 6

Within the index

53 finer motifs beneath it

Sunbeam as support Dice game that lasts for nine years Extraordinary occurrences connected with shoes Man carries extraordinary luggage Man washes clothes blindfolded Extraordinary flights through air Extraordinary descent into ocean Creation of a person by cooperation of skillful men Objects go journeying together Ship wrapped with feather-beds and canvass and pitched (so as to save it) Person walks unceasingly for year Person lives without food or drink for a year (or more) Person concealed in another's body Disintegration: man eats himself up or dismembers himself Hand from heaven writes on wall Object thrown from heaven Person without shadow Extraordinary physical reactions of persons Man suddenly acquires long gray beard on scaffold at execution Night spent in tree. Hero goes into tree to spend the night Anchor floats on water Prodigious weeping. Usually by saint Bones temporarily removed from body by tree climbers to avoid breaking them Books in church read without man's tongue +29 more

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