Wooden lizard used to kill evil spirits

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Wooden lizard used to kill evil spirits.

Marvels. · Extraordinary places and things. · Extraordinary weapons. · view the constellation · filed as F839.7

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

Easter IslandMétraux Ethnology 370.

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Filed under Other extraordinary weapons.

Filed beside it

Gnawed bone as weapon Extraordinary shield. (Cf. F824.)Cain slays Abel with bone of a camel. (Cf. A1336.)Human head as weapon Ball made of human brains as weapon Betelnut as weapon to strike off man's head

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