Color of flag (sails) on ship as message of good or bad news — Mythoi

Motif

Color of flag (sails) on ship as message of good or bad news.

Miscellaneous groups of motifs. · Symbolism. · Color symbolism. · view the constellation · filed as Z140.1

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.
general *Fb "sort" III 467
general *Frazer Apollodorus II 134 n. 2, *Frazer Pausanias II 161 → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), APOLLODORI BIBLIOTHECA, ch. 33
general *Schoepperle 437f.

Within the index

Filed under Color symbolism.

Filed beside it

Colors corresponding to the four world quarters Symbolism of colors in mass vestments Bridegroom inadvertently buys for bride cloth suitable only for widows. She supposes he has died Symbolic color: red Symbolic color: white Symbolic color: black Symbolic color: blue Symbolic color: green Symbolic color: brown Symbolic color: purple Yellow a lucky color

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Bag of winds. Wind is confined in a bag. Man breaks prohibition against looking into bag and releases winds Transformation: man to swine Transformation: woman to bitch Transformation: man to dove Transformation: man (woman) to almond tree Transformation by drinking Disenchantment from tree form by embrace of lover Moly: magic plant Magic lotus plant. (Cf. D975.1.) Magic drink Magic chair Lotus causes forgetfulness. (Cf. D965.6, D2004.3.)

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