Inanimate objects act as if living — Mythoi

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Inanimate objects act as if living.

Marvels. · Extraordinary occurrences. · Inanimate objects act as if living. · view the constellation · filed as F990

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross.

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13 finer motifs beneath it

Object bleeds Plant shrieks when uprooted Sunken bell sounds Object expresses sorrow Shield shrieks in battle Waters react to words of poet Sword pierces rock when possessor will break it Combat with horse's sex organ. (Cf. D1469.5.) Extraordinary heads act as living objects Substituted silver hand used as if it were of flesh and blood Cooked food grows when planted Extraordinary activity of mountains. (Cf. F755.) Inanimate object acts as if living

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