Magic

7,168 motifs · page 28 of 36

• Invisible arrows. (Cf. D1092.) Visible to one person alone. D1655.1.1
• Incombustible objects. (Cf. D1841.3; D2158.2; F979.5.) D1656
• Incombustible book. (Cf. D1266.) D1656.1
• Incombustible house (dwelling). (Cf. F222.1.1.) D1656.2
• Untiring object. D1657
• Magic untiring breeches. (Cf. D1055.) D1657.1
• Grateful objects. D1658
• Objects repay kindness. D1658.1
• River grateful for being praised even when ugly. (Cf. D915.) D1658.1.1
• Figs grateful for being praised even when ill-tasting. (Cf. D981.5.) D1658.1.2
• Bitter water grateful for being praised. (Cf. D1242.1.) D1658.1.3
• Continually slamming doors grateful for being fastened. (Cf. D1146.) D1658.1.4
• Apple-tree grateful for being shaken. (Cf. D950, D1610.2.0.1.) D1658.1.5
• Tree grateful for having boughs trimmed. D1658.1.5.1
• Tree grateful for having milk poured on roots. D1658.1.5.2
• River grateful for being given color. D1658.1.6
• Kinds of grateful objects. (See also D1658.1.) D1658.2
• Grateful stove. (Cf. D1161.) D1658.2.1
• Grateful carpets. (Cf. D1155.) D1658.2.2
• Grateful plant. D1658.2.3
• Services of grateful objects. D1658.3
• Grateful objects give advice. (Cf. D1312.) D1658.3.1
• Grateful objects help in choice of caskets. D1658.3.2
• Grateful objects give helper gifts. D1658.3.3
• Grateful objects help fugitive. (Cf. D1393, D1611.) D1658.3.4
• Magic object cannot be replaced. D1661
• Talking statue, when destroyed, cannot be replaced for thirty thousand years. (Cf. D1268, D1620.) D1661.1
• Magic object works by being stroked. D1662
• Magic ring works by being stroked. (Cf. D1076.) D1662.1
• Magic ring works by having sun's rays flash upon gem. D1662.1.1
• Magic lamp works by being stroked. (Cf. D1162.1.) D1662.2
• Diamond works by being pressed. (Cf. D1070.) D1662.3
• Magic object works in contrary fashions. D1663
• Wands of life and death. Pointed with one end, kill; with the other, resuscitate. (Cf. D1254.1, D1402.10.) D1663.1
• Magic club kills and revives. (Cf. D1094.) D1663.1.1
• Ointment cures left cheek, not right. (Cf. D1244.) D1663.2
• Well of life and death. Situated on one hand, kills; on the other, protects against disease. (Cf. E82.) D1663.3
• Fountains poison and cure. One, with bronze vessel, tastes sweet and poisons; other, with iron vessel, tastes bitter and cures. D1663.4
• Well rises or sinks to indicate long or short life. (Cf. D926.) D1663.5
• Magic tree gives money to good brother, poisonous animals to bad. (Cf. D950.) D1663.6
• Summer and winter garden. Garden which blooms in winter. (Cf. D961.) D1664
• Food has taste of any dainty desired. (Cf. D1030, D1359.4.) D1665
• Drink has taste of any liquor desired. (Cf. D1040.) D1665.1
• Cow whose milk "tastes of honey and intoxicating wine and the satisfaction of good food." (Cf. B19.2, B182, F241.2.) D1665.2
• Fruit has any taste desired. (Cf. D980.) D1665.3
• Manna tastes bitter to gentiles. (Cf. D1031.0.1.) D1665.4
• Sword leaves no trace of blow behind it. (Cf. D1081, D1564.7, F833.) D1666
• Magic garden grows at once. (Cf. D961.) D1667
• Magic tree shoots forth leaf, flower, and fruit at once. (Cf. D950.) D1667.1
• Magic acorns grow at once. (Cf. D985.4.) D1667.2
• Million-fold rice which ripens in one night. (Cf. D965.8.1.) D1667.3
• Garden that has not bloomed for twelve years does so when girl steps into it. (Cf. D961.) D1667.4
• Magic tree continually in fruit. (Cf. D950.) D1668
• Silver in chain increases in fire. (Cf. D1078.) D1671
• Unquenchable fire. (Cf. D1271.) D1672
• Magic fire burns for seven years. (Cf. D1271.) D1672.0.1
• Flaming shield unquenchable. (Cf. D1101.1.) D1672.1
• Self-burning bush. (Cf. D964.) D1672.2
• Magic staff blossoms. (Cf. D1254.) D1673
• Tree grows from stick saint has used and thrown aside. (Cf. D956.) D1673.1
• Iron blessed by saint incapable of wounding. (Cf. D1080, V220.) D1674
• Garden wall that cannot be overleapt. D1675
• Mill refuses to work on Sunday. (Cf. D1263.) D1676
• Manna does not fall on Sabbath. (Cf. D1031.0.1.) D1676.1
• Mill refuses to work when saint is ill-treated. (Cf. D1263.) D1677
• Magic book, once used, compels person to do evil. (Cf. D1266.) D1678
• Charm incorrectly uttered will not work. D1681
• Magic jewel which outweighs many heavy objects in the scale. (Cf. D1071.) D1682
• Hearth cleaned by angel always free of ashes. (Cf. D1147, V230.) D1683
• Dye blessed by saint colors animals, trees. (Cf. D1297, V220.) D1684
• Interred body of saint performs signs and miracles. D1685
• Magic object departs and returns at formulistic command. D1686
• Object magically becomes heavy. D1687
• Marvelous post wears down at top instead of rotting from bottom. (Cf. D956, D1250.) D1688
• Magic suspension of weight. D1691
• Huge load easily carried by a saint. (Cf. V220.) D1691.1
• Cloak (and shirt) fit person of any size. (Cf. D1053, D1056.) D1692
• Magic rod swallows other rods. (Cf. D1254.2.) D1693
• Sword that cannot be magically dulled. (Cf. D2086.1.) D1694
• Magic powers. D1700
• Possession of magic powers. (Cf. D800.) D1710
• Magician. (Cf. D1721.) D1711
• Magician's apprentice. D1711.0.1
• Magician keeps magic power in tumor in back. D1711.0.2
• Means of becoming magician. D1711.0.3
• Biblical worthy as magician. D1711.1
• Solomon as master of magicians. D1711.1.1
• Esau as magician. D1711.1.2
• Baalam as master of magicians. D1711.1.3
• Virgil as magician. D1711.2
• Sun as magician. D1711.3
• Druid as magician. D1711.4
• Fairy as magician. (Cf. F234.0.2.) D1711.5
• God or demigod as magician. D1711.6
• Odin as magician. D1711.6.1
• Aesculapius as magician. D1711.6.2
• King as magician. D1711.7
• Pharaoh as magician. D1711.7.1
• Strong man as magician. D1711.8
• Dark-haired people (with bowed nose) as magicians. D1711.9
• People of certain place as magicians. D1711.10
• Finns as magicians. D1711.10.1
• People of Gestrikland (Sweden) as magicians. D1711.10.2
• Egyptians as magicians. D1711.10.3
• People of Palmyra as magicians. D1711.10.4
• Amonites as magicians. D1711.10.5
• Amalekites as magicians. D1711.10.6
• Family of magicians. D1711.11
• Baalam's family as magicians. D1711.11.1
• People who come on ship with sickness accused as magicians. D1711.12
• Reptile-men cure snake bites, and can summon together snakes (or mice) and lead them away anywhere. D1711.13
• Soothsayer (diviner, oracle, etc.). (Cf. M301.) D1712
• Astrologer-magician. D1712.0.1
• Soothsayer at work by various methods of divination. D1712.1
• Blind man as soothsayer. D1712.2
• Interpreter of dreams. D1712.3
• Magic power of hermit (saint, yogi). (Cf. P426.2.) D1713
• Magic power of person without sin. D1714
• Magic power of chaste woman. D1714.1
• Chaste maiden at prayer vanishes from would-be ravisher's embrace. D1714.1.1
• Magic power of dying man's words. D1715
• Magic last wish at death becomes a reality (reincarnation). D1715.1
• Dying peasant summons greedy bishop for heavenly funeral; the bishop dies hearing the message. D1715.2
• Dying man commands cloud to bear message to man's wife. D1715.3
• Magic power of the infirm. D1716
• Magic power of the idiot. D1716.1
• Magic power of the lame. D1716.2
• Magic power of sterile woman. D1716.3
• Magic power of children. D1717
• Magic power of monster child. D1717.1
• Special location of magic powers. D1718
• Magic power contained in stick and water. D1718.1
• Possession of magic powers – miscellaneous. D1719
• Contest in magic. (Cf. H1573.3.) D1719.1
• Contest in magic between druid and saint. D1719.1.1
• Contest between druid and fairy personage. D1719.1.2
• Magic contest, magician and giant: magician would make a dog's tail crooked, the giant would straighten it – and so on, ad infinitum. D1719.1.3
• Contest between carpenter and son to race wooden horses they had both made. D1719.1.4
• Magic wisdom possessed by wild man. (Cf. F567.) D1719.2
• Magic power of superhuman race. D1719.3
• Magic wisdom possessed by extraordinary companion. D1719.4
• Magic power of fairy. (Cf. A1611.10.1.) D1719.5
• Magic power of holy cross. (Cf. V86.) D1719.6
• Magic power of mermaid. D1719.7
• Man has magic servants who plow for him; he swallows them each day and keeps them secret. D1719.8
• Magic power at certain time. D1719.9
• Magic power only at night. D1719.9.1
• Magic power at Passover. D1719.9.2
• Magic power only under certain conditions. D1719.10
• Magic power only when magician's feet touch ground. D1719.10.1
• Limited amount of magic in world. D1719.11
• Only ten measures of magic allotted to world. D1719.11.1
• Acquisition of magic powers. (Cf. D810.) D1720
• Man given power of wishing. D1720.1
• Devil gives man power of wishing. D1720.1.1
• Man receives divine "possession" (becomes a diviner). D1720.2
• Magic power from magician. D1721
• Magic power from donning magician's clothes. (Cf. D1052.) D1721.0.1
• Magic power obtained secretly from magician's friends. D1721.0.2
• Magic power from devil. D1721.1
• Magic arts learned in hell. D1721.1.1
• Magic power from demon. D1721.1.2
• Spirit gives man the power of exorcising him out of anyone he possesses. (Cf. D2176.) D1721.1.3
• Magic power from rakshasi. D1721.1.4
• Magic power acquired by eating fish which have eaten dead magician's flesh. D1721.2
• Magician blows magic into disciples' ears. D1721.3
• Disciples drink magician's urine. D1721.4
• Magician's disciples eat magic iron. D1721.5
• Magician's disciples acquire magic powers by study. D1721.6
• Magic power from saint. (Cf. D1713, V223.4.1.) D1722
• Magic power from prophet. D1722.1
• Magic power from fairy. D1723
• Magic power from Death. Death as godfather. (Cf. D1725.1.) D1724
• Magic power obtained from angels. D1725
• Magic power from Angel of Death. (Cf. 1724.) D1725.1
• Magic power from deity. D1726
• Soothsaying learned from a god. D1726.0.1
• Magic power from celestial maiden. D1726.1
• Magic power from stone idol. D1726.2
• Magic power learned from giant (as foster-father). D1727
• Magic power from superhuman race. (Cf. D1719.3.) D1728
• Magic power received in dream. D1731
• Song learned in dream. (Cf. D1275.) D1731.1
• Marvels seen in dreams. D1731.2
• Fairy seen in dream. (Cf. F471.2, K2035.) D1731.2.1
• All nature composed of food in vision. (Cf. V514, X1503.) D1731.2.2
• (Dream of) rock-casting contest. (Cf. A966.1, D931.) D1731.3
• Magic power obtained by meditation. D1732
• Acts producing magic power. D1733
• Magic power by jumping into fire. D1733.1
• Magic power by crawling through ear of magic horse. (Cf. B181.) D1733.2
• Magic power through ascetic practices. D1733.3
• Magic power by fasting. (Cf. G224.16, P623.) D1733.3.1
• Oracular twigs work only if man has fasted. (Cf. D1311.4.0.1.) D1733.3.1.1
• Magic power by sitting in certain seat. D1733.4
• Magic power from swooning. D1733.5
• Magic power by magic songs. D1733.6
• Magic powers from rubbing. D1734
• Magic power by rubbing talisman. D1734.1
• Magic powers from swallowing. D1735