Object expresses sorrow — Mythoi

Motif

Object expresses sorrow.

Marvels. · Extraordinary occurrences. · Inanimate objects act as if living. · view the constellation · filed as F994

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Inanimate objects act as if living.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Books show sorrow for owner's death by falling from shelf Chariots, stones, weapons join in keen at hero's death

Filed beside it

Object bleeds Plant shrieks when uprooted Sunken bell sounds 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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