Sword pierces rock when possessor will break it

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Sword pierces rock when possessor will break it.

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

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.

IcelandicBoberg.

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Filed under Inanimate objects act as if living.

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Sword is spoken to as to human being

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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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