Extremely old person — Mythoi

Motif

Extremely old person.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Remarkable persons. · Other extraordinary human beings. · view the constellation · filed as F571

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Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross, O'Suilleabhain 28, Beal XXI 309
Icelandic *Boberg
Jewish *Neuman
Chinese Eberhard FFC CXX 206f.

Within the index

Filed under Other extraordinary human beings.

8 finer motifs beneath it

Old man with hanging eyelids. So old that the eyelids hang down to his chin and must be lifted up Sending to the older. Old person refers inquirer to his father, who refers to his father, and so on for several generations Very old woman Man so old he sleeps in cradle King so old that he only can take food from a horn King so old that he cannot get on horseback without help Person hundreds of years old Man lives for nine generations

Filed beside it

Dancers upon whom icicles hang Negro so black that he makes whole garden somber Luminous person Remarkable beauty. (Cf. F574.1.) Extraordinary ugliness. (Cf. A2402.) Persons identical in appearance. (Cf. F1072.) [First Edition: F581. Woman who drives those who see her mad. (Inadvertant duplication of F1041.8.1.)] Poison damsel. Woman nourished on poison is fatal to her husbands. Sometimes the poisoning is from fatal look or breath, sometimes from intercourse Hero has lain motionless since birth Person remarkably light in weight Phantoms Person who never laughs Man's ferocious glance kills (causes swooning) Person's extraordinary body temperature. (Cf. F546.5) Man whose entrails are visible when he laughs Man's body exudes sweet scent

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