μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Sword pierces rock when possessor will break it.

Marvels. · Extraordinary occurrences. · Inanimate objects act as if living. · view the constellation · filed as F997

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic Boberg.
Within the index

Filed under Inanimate objects act as if living.

1 finer motif beneath it
Sword is spoken to as to human being
Filed beside it
Object bleeds Plant shrieks when uprooted Sunken bell sounds Object expresses sorrow Shield shrieks in battle Waters react to words of poet 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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