Marvels

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• Book dropped in water by saint not wet. F930.1
• Dashing sea does not touch saint's cowl. (Cf. D1067.3.1, F931.3.) F930.1.0.1
• Robe sent to saint on stream not wet. (Cf. D1052.) F930.1.0.2
• Waters rise to drown wrongdoer. F930.2
• Water sinks to bottom, mud rises to surface to keep prophet from drowning. F930.3
• Waters transformed to blood for Egyptians but not for Hebrews. (Cf. D474.) F930.4
• Water stops flowing when no longer needed. F930.5
• Water chants song. (Cf. D1614.4, F931.12.) F930.6
• Waters dissolve mill-stones. F930.7
• Chewed nut spread on waters clarifies them. F930.8
• Extraordinary occurrence connected with sea. F931
• Sea rises and changes place. F931.1
• Sea rises at saint's command. F931.1.1
• Fish disappear from sea. Punishment for woman's having washed a child with a fish. F931.2
• Sea does not encroach on burial place of saint. (Cf. F930.1.0.1.) F931.3
• Sea behaves like solid earth when man is buried in it. F931.3.1
• Extraordinary behavior of waves. F931.4
• Waves reverberate at preparation for battle. F931.4.1
• Waves moan (shriek) during battle. F931.4.2
• Extraordinary shipwreck in calm weather. F931.5
• Fishing under sea. F931.6
• Sea changes color. F931.7
• Sea fettered. F931.8
• Passing through sea unscathed. (Cf. D1551.) F931.9
• Waters of sea arch over people like a vault. (Cf. F932.2.) F931.9.1
• Sea yields people whatever they desire. F931.9.2
• Sea flows sweet water. F931.9.2.1
• Sea bears fruits. F931.9.2.2
• Paths open up in sea for each tribe (one for each of Israel's tribes). F931.9.3
• Sea piles up to height of sixteen hundred miles. F931.10
• Speaking sea. (Cf. D1610, F932.12.) F931.11
• Seas sing hymns of praise. (Cf. F930.6.) F931.12
• Extraordinary occurrences connected with rivers. F932
• River pursues fugitive. F932.1
• River arches over saint's body like a vault. (Cf. F931.9.1, V220.) F932.2
• Stream becomes hot in which saint performs his ascetic devotions. F932.3
• Well of oil runs into river. F932.4
• River acts as messenger. F932.5
• River carries object to saint. F932.5.1
• River ceases to flow. F932.6
• River dries up for a day. F932.6.1
• River dries up its waters out of sympathy. F932.6.2
• In dead of night waters of stream cease flowing and stand perfectly still. F932.6.3
• River boils. F932.7
• River boils when ashes of hearts are cast into it. F932.7.1
• River rises and overflows. F932.8
• River rises to prevent body's being carried over it against dying man's wish. F932.8.1
• River rises to prevent advance of army. F932.8.2
• River rises to prevent meeting of hostile armies. F932.8.2.1
• River rises to prevent escape of thieves. F932.8.3
• Treacherous river overflows and drowns victims. F932.8.4
• Shallow river rushes up to drown man. F932.8.5
• River piles up to a height of three hundred miles. F932.8.6
• Ford across impassable river created by saint. F932.9
• River divides into two parts after rape in its bed. F932.10
• Firelike waters of river used by strange beings to cook flesh. F932.11
• Speaking river (brook). (Cf. D1614.4, F930.6, F931.11.) F932.12
• Extraordinary occurrences connected with springs. F933
• Miraculous spring bursts forth for holy person. F933.1
• Spring bursts forth where saint spills water from his bell. F933.1.1
• Magic spring flows from roots of tree at command of Jesus. F933.1.2
• Well rises so holy person does not have to draw from it. F933.1.3
• Well rises so maiden can draw without exerting herself. F933.1.3.1
• Well rises for pious man's sheep. F933.1.3.2
• Dry spring restored by removal of certain stone. F933.2
• At certain time sheep thrown into well become crimson. F933.3
• Severed head of impious man in well causes water to become bitter during part of each day. F933.4
• Rushes uprooted reveal spring. F933.5
• Spring miraculously breaks forth against wrongdoer. F933.6
• Desecrated well overflows. F933.6.1
• Well floods when gazed upon until mass is said over it. F933.7
• Bones of bird constantly thrown up from well. F933.8
• Extraordinary occurrences connected with lakes. F934
• Gravel rises from bottom as hero enters lake. F934.1
• Lake rises from bramble bush. F934.2
• Lake petrifies wood. F934.3
• Lake disappears. F934.4
• When dead man's body is thrown into lake, water turns pitch black and all living creatures therein die. F934.5
• Extraordinary occurrences connected with pond (pool, tank). F935
• Huge tank has no water in spite of plentiful rains. F935.1
• Ice forms while fish leaps from pool. F935.2
• Extraordinary underground (underwater) disappearance. F940
• Building sinks into earth. F941
• Castle sinks into earth. F941.1
• Church sinks underground. F941.2
• Church sinks: song heard from underground. F941.2.1
• Church and congregation sink to bottom of sea. F941.2.2
• Temple swallowed by earth. F941.2.3
• Tower sinks into earth. F941.3
• Unfinished Tower of Babel sinks into earth. (Cf. F772.1.) F941.3.1
• Man sinks into earth. F942
• Ground opens and swallows up person. F942.1
• Ground opens to hide fugitive. F942.1.1
• Ground cut from under adversary. F942.2
• Adversary pushed into ground. F942.2.1
• Earth opens at man's command. F942.3
• Earth opens at woman's bidding to enclose her. F942.3.1
• Sinking into mud in duel. F943
• Man sinks into stone. F943.1
• City sinks in the sea. F944
• City sinks in sea or lake as punishment. F944.1
• Ancient homeland sinks beneath the waves. F944.2
• Island sinks into sea. F944.3
• Earth splits and plain sinks to become bottom of lake when tabu is broken. F944.4
• Person gradually submerged by sea. F945
• Ground opens and swallows forest. F947
• Object sinks into earth. F948
• Ground opens and swallows heathen idols. F948.1
• Earth swallows up Temple vessels. F948.1.1
• Ground opens and swallows other object. F948.2
• Magic object sinks into earth. F948.3
• Extraordinary sword sinks into earth after use. F948.4
• City is buried under sand. F948.5
• Extraordinary underground (underwater) disappearance – miscellaneous. F949
• Animal sinks into earth. F949.1
• Ground opens and swallows demoniac wasps. F949.1.1
• Man falls underground through hole. F949.2
• Marvelous cures. F950
• Sickness cured by napkin of Veronica. F950.1
• Extreme anger as cure for sickness. (Cf. F955.) F950.2
• Wife cures self of catarrh by calling to husband fondling maid at bedside. F950.2.1
• Measuring sick as means of cure. F950.3
• Sickness (madness) cured by coition. F950.4
• Extreme fear as cure for sickness. F950.5
• Sucking through tubes heals wounds. (Cf. F959.3.) F950.6
• Marvelous cure without seeing person. F950.7
• Princess cured by seeing her lost lover dance. F950.8
• Healing by sprinkling water and replacing flesh. F950.9
• Blindness miraculously cured. F952
• Sight miraculously restored while poet writes hymn (poem). F952.0.1
• Blinded prince forces goddess to give him back his sight. F952.0.2
• Blindness cured by tears. F952.1
• Blindness healed by sun's rays. F952.2
• Blindness cured by rubbing sand on eyes. F952.3
• Blindness cured by striking eyes. (Cf. F953.1.) F952.3.1
• Blindness cured by striking eyes with shell. F952.3.1.1
• Blindness cured by rubbing eyes with flower. F952.3.2
• Blindness cured by striking head violently on tree. F952.4
• Blindness cured by application of chicken dung. F952.5
• Blindness cured by drop of water from side of crucified Saviour. F952.6
• Eyes restored by bathing in lake (spring). F952.7
• Cripple marvelously cured. F953
• Hunchback cured by having hump severely beaten. F953.1
• Dumb person brought to speak. F954
• Thread under dumb man's tongue cut. This permits him to speak. F954.1
• Dumbness cured by question. F954.2
• Dumb princess is brought to speech by tale ending with a question to be solved. F954.2.1
• Dumbness cured by saint's question. F954.2.2
• Fainting brings recovery of speech. F954.3
• Chilli plant so hot it causes dumb man to speak: thus discovered for eating. F954.4
• Flea (magic) enters princess' throat and helps hero make her speak. F954.4.1
• Person made to speak by warning of danger. F954.5
• Miraculous cure for leprosy. Rage at hearing for first time of Christ's passion causes cure. (Cf. F950.3.) F955
• Blood-bath as cure for leprosy. (Cf. F872.3.) F955.1
• Extraordinary diagnosis. F956
• Detailed diagnosis by feeling pulse. F956.1
• Illegitimacy of child discovered by urinalysis. F956.2
• Diagnosis based on smoke rising from house of sick. F956.3
• Physician, by examining wound can tell whether it was inflicted by a man or a woman and describe him or her in detail. F956.4
• Cure by physician's imitating sick man's actions. F957
• Mountebank undertakes to bring the city's incurables back to health. Effects marvelous cures. F958
• Marvelous cures – miscellaneous. F959
• Madness miraculously cured. F959.1
• Senses regained when person speaks his name. F959.1.1
• Cross-eyes straighted when hero sets head of slain opponent upon his own. F959.2
• Deformity cured by waves of sea. F959.2.1
• Miraculous cure of wound. F959.3
• Dreadful wound healed. F959.3.1
• Gaping wound closed with slab of wood. F959.3.2
• Wounds healed by bath of marrow. F959.3.3
• Weapon (missile) miraculously removed. F959.3.4
• Saint's palm over wound causes spearhead to come forth. F959.3.4.1
• Fat of crow as remedy for king's wounds. F959.3.5
• Paunch opened and fat taken out to cure stomach. F959.4
• Cure for deadly snake bite. F959.5
• Marvelous cure for poison. F959.6
• Enemy cured by poisoned cake he has sent to holy man in order to destroy him. F959.6.1
• Immunity to poison by eating poisons. (Mithridates.) F959.6.2
• Extraordinary nature phenomena – elements and weather. F960
• Extraordinary nature phenomena at birth of holy person (hero). F960.1
• Extraordinary nature phenomena at birth of royalty. F960.1.1
• Thunder report at birth of king. (Cf. F968.) F960.1.1.1
• Shower of gold and silver rains upon king's ship at birth of his children. F960.1.1.2
• Storm signs betray newly born child's chiefly rank. F960.1.1.3
• Extraordinary nature phenomena at birth of hero. (Cf. T583, V222.) F960.1.2
• Extraordinary precipitation at birth of hero. (Cf. F962.) F960.1.2.1
• Shower of lotuses at birth of hero. F960.1.2.1.1
• Exhibition of lights at saint's birth. F960.1.3
• Bells ring without human hands when a saint is born. F960.1.4
• Extraordinary nature phenomena at rebirth: nine worlds tremble. F960.1.5
• When girl (princess) is born, earth is filled with light. F960.1.6
• Extraordinary nature phenomena at death of holy person (hero). F960.2
• Nature fruitless after death of hero. F960.2.1
• Rainbow stretches from monastery to heaven at saint's death. F960.2.2
• Rock bursts into flames at hero's death. (Cf. F964.3.4.) F960.2.3
• Great light appears on night of holy man's death. F960.2.4
• Earthquake at death of important person. F960.2.5
• Earthquake when good man is murdered. F960.2.5.1
• Earthquake at witch's death. F960.2.5.2
• Earthquake at dragon's death. F960.2.5.3