Marvels

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• Animals carry extraordinary burden. F982
• Eagles carry castle in air. F982.1
• Great flock of birds lift grayhound and garments into air. F982.1.1
• Four cats carry coffin. F982.2
• Hawk carries hand of man to saint displeased by handclasp. F982.3
• Bird brings flower from foreign land. F982.4
• Crocodile carries extraordinary burden. F982.5
• Toad carries seven stone mortars on his head. F982.6
• Toad carries tree on back. F982.7
• Crab carries in his ear cat, tiger, bamboos, river. F982.8
• Extraordinary growth of animal. F983
• Extraordinary quick growth of animal. (Cf. T585.) F983.0.1
• Snail grows and fills house entirely. F983.1
• Louse fattened. F983.2
• Cat grows as large as a cow in a minute. F983.3
• Extraordinary growth of ox horns. F983.4
• Extraordinary protection for animal. F984
• Horse sewed in buffalo-hides. As protection against a greater horse, hero's horse is sewed in nine buffalo-hides. F984.1
• Animals change color. F985
• Black sheep turn white. (Cf. H1023.6.) F985.1
• Extraordinary occurrences concerning fishing. F986
• Clerics catch fish with regularity. F986.1
• Salmon caught out of season for saint. F986.2
• Salmon comes every seventh year to certain place. F986.3
• Stranded fish do not decay for a year. F986.4
• Shores flooded with sea-fish. F986.5
• Animal controls sex of offspring. F987
• Bird controls sex and appearance of offspring. Hatches seven eggs – three under each wing and one under breast. The right wing hatches three red males, the left three green females. The egg under the breast shares the characteristics of both sex and color – but dies. F987.1
• Extraordinary limbs of animals. F988
• Ox's leg acts as person. F988.1
• Hoofs of horses drop from their feet because of heat. F988.2
• Apertures of animals' bodies closed up in certain land. F988.3
• Extraordinary occurrences concerning animals – miscellaneous. F989
• Horse jumps over high wall. F989.1
• Horse's tremendous leap. F989.1.1
• Bird's red eye cooks meat. Looks so intently at it that it heats and cooks. F989.2
• Cuckoo-clock. Bird calls out the hours. F989.3
• Man rides on back of fleeing wild boar. (Cf. B557.) F989.4
• Sheep never harmed by wild beasts. F989.5
• Sheep kill wolves. F989.5.1
• One bull, one cow survive plague. F989.6
• Swine kick trees to cause fruit to fall. F989.7
• Mother-love induced in animal. F989.8
• Milk from saint's cows forms lake. F989.9
• Animals distribute parts of man's body in accordance with prophecy. F989.10
• Animal as mighty drinker. F989.11
• Cow lowers ocean by drinking. F989.11.1
• Sea animal found inland. F989.12
• Animal dives into lake and disappears. F989.13
• Birds hover over battlefield. F989.14
• Hunt for extraordinary (magic) animal. F989.15
• Extraordinary swarms of birds. F989.16
• Swarms of quails serve as food for Israelites. F989.16.1
• Swarms of birds darken sun and moon. F989.16.2
• Marvelously swift horse. F989.17
• Boar hung in spider's web. F989.18
• Cock with enormous silver ears. F989.19
• Egg becomes crowing cock. F989.20
• Spider spins web across sky. F989.21
• Animals eat extraordinary food. F989.22
• Fowls eat gold and silver. F989.22.1
• Tiger lives on self-cooking food. F989.22.2
• Pig swallows necklace. F989.22.3
• Animals live on pearls. F989.22.4
• Frog pierces hardest metals and marbles. F989.23
• Frogs cast themselves into oven-flames and devour bread. F989.24
• Inanimate objects act as if living. F990
• Object bleeds. F991
• Bleeding lance. Stream of blood flows from it into silver cup. (Cf. D1086.) F991.1
• Bleeding knife. F991.1.1
• Bleeding bone. Man cuts into dry bone that bleeds. F991.2
• Dry bone smells as sign of forgiveness. F991.2.1
• Bleeding cake. F991.3
• Bleeding loaf of bread. F991.3.1
• Shrine bleeds. F991.4
• Desecrated altar bleeds. F991.4.1
• Bleeding rock. F991.5
• Plant shrieks when uprooted. F992
• Mandrake shrieks when uprooted. F992.1
• Sunken bell sounds. F993
• Sunken bell sounds at certain times. F993.1
• Object expresses sorrow. F994
• Books show sorrow for owner's death by falling from shelf. F994.1
• Chariots, stones, weapons join in keen at hero's death. F994.2
• Shield shrieks in battle. F995
• Waters react to words of poet. F996
• Sword pierces rock when possessor will break it. F997
• Sword is spoken to as to human being. F997.1
• Combat with horse's sex organ. (Cf. D1469.5.) F998
• Extraordinary heads act as living objects. F1001
• Substituted silver hand used as if it were of flesh and blood. F1002
• Cooked food grows when planted. F1005
• Cake, planted in the field, grows and after a time bears cakes. F1005.1
• Extraordinary activity of mountains. (Cf. F755.) F1006
• Mountain moves so that its rocks enter into caves of other mountain. (Cf. D932.) F1006.1
• Mountain moves to person. (Cf. D932, F755.) F1006.2
• Mountain trembles. F1006.3
• Inanimate object acts as if living. F1009
• Doorpost of room rises for holy person. F1009.1
• Gate swallows axes trying to force it open. F1009.2
• Altar shakes when unworthy man is elected. (Cf. D1169.) F1009.3
• Twelve stones unite to become one. (Cf. D931.) [Inadvertant duplication of D491.6.] F1009.4
• Other extraordinary events. F1010
• Sunbeam as support. F1011
• Clothes hung on sunbeam. F1011.1
• Gospel-book hung from saint's shoulders without strap. F1011.1.1
• Sitting (hanging) on a sunbeam. F1011.2
• Dice game that lasts for nine years. F1014
• Extraordinary occurrences connected with shoes. F1015
• Shoes miraculously worn out. F1015.1
• The danced-out shoes. Every morning girl's shoes are danced to pieces. F1015.1.1
• Woman has worn out carriage-load of shoes with walking. F1015.1.2
• Wearing shoes only when crossing river. F1015.2
• Bill of sale written on man's sandal. F1015.3
• Man carries extraordinary luggage. F1016
• Man puts his horse in his sleeve when he does not need it. F1016.1
• Man washes clothes blindfolded. F1017
• Extraordinary flights through air. F1021
• Flight on artificial wings. F1021.1
• Extraordinary effect of high flight. F1021.2
• Flight so high that sun melts glue of artificial wings. F1021.2.1
• Flight so high that eyelids drop from cold. (Cf. B552.1.) F1021.2.2
• Man learns to fly. F1021.3
• Man kicked so hard that he flies through the air and is never seen again. F1021.4
• Extraordinary descent into ocean. F1022
• Descent into ocean in glass box. F1022.1
• Creation of a person by cooperation of skillful men. F1023
• Objects go journeying together. F1025
• Bean, straw, and coal go journeying. Coal burns straw in two and falls into the water. Bean laughs until it splits. F1025.1
• Turtle's war-party. Turtle recruits war-party of strange objects (knife, brush, awl, etc.) and animals. Because of their nature the companions get into trouble. F1025.2
• Eggplant, needle, and cowdung go on warpath. F1025.2.1
• Ship wrapped with feather-beds and canvass and pitched (so as to save it). F1031
• Person walks unceasingly for year. F1032
• Person wanders unceasingly for hundred and fifty years. F1032.1
• Person lives without food or drink for a year (or more). F1033
• Person lives on water (from holy well) for a year. F1033.1
• Person concealed in another's body. F1034
• Husband concealed in wife's ear. F1034.1
• Magician carries mistress with him in his body. She in turn has paramour in hers. F1034.2
• Ascetic carries woman in his hair, but she has two lovers in her cloak and outwits him. F1034.2.1
• Person's thigh as hiding place. F1034.3
• Man hides sister in wound in his thigh to protect her. F1034.3.1
• Bottle concealed in person's thigh. F1034.3.2
• Garment hidden in hole cut in thigh. F1034.3.3
• Jewell hidden in wound cut in thigh. F1034.3.4
• Person's armpit as hiding place. F1034.4
• Other parts of person's body as hiding place. F1034.5
• Key to house concealed in man's heart. F1034.5.1
• Disintegration: man eats himself up or dismembers himself. F1035
• Hand from heaven writes on wall. F1036
• Object thrown from heaven. F1037
• Footstool thrown from heaven. F1037.1
• Person without shadow. F1038
• Man attends devil's school to learn witchcraft, has no shadow afterward. F1038.1
• Man has witch aid him in reaping contest, the devil to get the hindmost. The devil tries to take the man but gets shadow instead. (Cf. G303.19, K210.) F1038.2
• Extraordinary physical reactions of persons. F1041
• Neophyte shows no reaction when saint's staff pierces his foot. F1041.0.1
• Extraordinary death. F1041.1
• Death from broken heart. F1041.1.1
• Heart breaks at third drink from silver canister. F1041.1.1.1
• Heart breaks when girl hears lover kiss another. F1041.1.1.2
• Heart breaks from sorrow. F1041.1.1.3
• Hearts break when lovers are told beloved is dead. F1041.1.1.4
• Death from grief for death of lover or relative. F1041.1.2
• Lover dies beside dying sweetheart. F1041.1.2.1
• Woman dies on hearing of her husband's death. F1041.1.2.2
• Woman swoons and is near death at hearing of husband's or lover's death. F1041.1.2.2.1
• First woman in Ireland to die of grief for the death of her husband. (Cf. A1335, A1611.5.4.1.) F1041.1.2.2.2
• Death from hearing of wife's death. F1041.1.2.2.3
• Death from hearing of son's (sons') death. F1041.1.2.2.4
• Death from sorrow or chagrin. F1041.1.3
• Maiden who has been falsely accused apparently dies of sorrow. She revives on being prepared for burial. F1041.1.3.1
• Servant grieves over master's death. Kills wife and himself. F1041.1.3.2
• Woman dies on having secret love exposed. F1041.1.3.3
• Priest dies from having been duped into deceptive bargain. F1041.1.3.4
• Man dies on learning of wife's adultery. F1041.1.3.5
• Heart breaks when girl learns men are slain in battle on her account. F1041.1.3.6
• Woman dies of broken heart on learning that her former husband is still alive. She had remarried thinking him dead. F1041.1.3.7
• Man dies from grieving over mother's death. F1041.1.3.8
• Death from excitement at news of Christ's crucifixion. F1041.1.3.9
• Death from chagrin. Man cannot answer question. F1041.1.3.10
• Guilty persons being confronted with their crimes become "insensate like trees". F1041.1.3.10.1
• Death from longing. F1041.1.4
• Death from excessive joy. F1041.1.5
• Bridegroom dies from joy. F1041.1.5.1
• Stranger dies from joy on being rewarded by ruler. F1041.1.5.2
• Mother dies from joy on greeting long-absent son. F1041.1.5.3
• Death from joy of kiss. F1041.1.5.4
• Death from sight of beautiful woman. (Cf. F1041.8.1.) F1041.1.6
• Fainting away at sight of goddess. F1041.1.6.1
• Man dies when he learns storm is magic. F1041.1.7
• Death on beholding hell. F1041.1.8
• Death from jealousy. F1041.1.9
• Death (illness) from envy. F1041.1.10
• Death from fear. (Cf. F1041.17.) F1041.1.11
• Suicide from fear of starving. F1041.1.11.1
• Death from fear of demons. F1041.1.11.2
• Suicide from fright of evil prophecy. F1041.1.11.3
• Man dies from frog's bite, thinking it snakebite. F1041.1.11.4
• Death from horror. F1041.1.12