Marvels

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• Death from shame. F1041.1.13
• Girl dies of shame at being seen naked. F1041.1.13.1
• Woman dies of shame at seeing naked man (husband). F1041.1.13.2
• Horripilation. Hair rises on end in extraordinary fashion from joy, anger, or love. F1041.2
• Person goes blind from overweeping. F1041.3
• Person melts away from heat. F1041.4
• Poison of hydra corrodes the skin. F1041.5
• Buttons burst as consequence of violent emotion. F1041.6
• Necklace bursts as consequence of violent emotion. F1041.6.1
• Hair turns gray from terror. F1041.7
• Extraordinary madness. F1041.8
• Madness from seeing beautiful woman. (Cf. F1041.1.6.) F1041.8.1
• Madness from sight of magically beautiful man. F1041.8.1.1
• Madness from grief. (Cf. F1041.21.5.) F1041.8.2
• Madness from seeing ugly ogre. F1041.8.3
• Madness from thirst. F1041.8.4
• Madness from overeating. F1041.8.5
• Men go mad in battle. F1041.8.6
• Mad warriors fly up into clouds. (Cf. F1041.16.6.) F1041.8.7
• Madness from hearing prophetic voice from air. F1041.8.8
• Madness from regret that knight has forsaken his wife. F1041.8.9
• Madness (rage) from hearing about brother's death. F1041.8.10
• Madness from loss of fortune. F1041.8.11
• Extraordinary illness. F1041.9
• Going to bed for sorrow. F1041.9.1
• Man keeps to his bed, mourning over drowned son. F1041.9.1.1
• King keeps to his bed, mourning over vanished bride. F1041.9.1.2
• Woman keeps to her bed on announcement of lover's death. F1041.9.1.3
• Illness from keeping a secret. F1041.9.2
• Huge boil appears on forehead of youth keeping a secret. F1041.9.2.1
• Illness from shame of enemies' scorn. F1041.9.3
• Man sweats blood and absorbs hair into head on exertion of strength. F1041.10
• Laughing and crying at the same time (sundry reasons given). F1041.11
• Laughter from chagrin. F1041.11.1
• Man turns pale, red, blue, etc. from emotion or strain. F1041.11.2
• Man perspires in winter while relating fearful vision. F1041.12
• Biting fingers to see if one is dreaming. F1041.13
• Beheaded man swims. (Cf. E783.) F1041.14
• Inordinate longing. (Cf. D1041.1.4.) F1041.15
• Extraordinary physical reaction to anger. F1041.16
• Man spits fire when enraged. F1041.16.1
• One eye recedes, other protrudes when angered. (Cf. F541.5.) F1041.16.2
• Man fells wood with sword (dies) when he hears of Crucifixion. F1041.16.3
• Strength from anger enables man to break binding chain. F1041.16.3.1
• Strength from anger causes man to break stone. F1041.16.3.2
• Strength from anger enables man to tear opponent to bits. F1041.16.3.3
• Heat of saint's anger sets cowl afire. F1041.16.4
• Extraordinary bodily contortion as result of warrior's anger. (Cuchulain's battle-rage.) F1041.16.5
• Extraordinary physical reactions of angry warriors in battle. (Cf. F1041.8.7.) F1041.16.6
• Fury in battle causes stream of blood to rise from warrior's head. F1041.16.6.1
• Fury in battle causes warrior to increase in size. F1041.16.6.2
• Fiery columns rise in front of angry warrior. F1041.16.6.3
• Face of angry warrior lights up with flame. F1041.16.6.4
• Angry warrior becomes red and purple. F1041.16.6.5
• Water boils when angry warrior is immersed in it. F1041.16.6.6
• Fury enables wounded soldiers to continue fighting. Die at end of battle. F1041.16.6.7
• Angry warrior's breath makes adversary's armour so hot that he must surrender. F1041.16.6.8
• Bowstring (arrow, oar) breaks at angry warrior's grasp. F1041.16.6.9
• King about to kill foster-son due to his evil explanation of dream; both jump into sea and are drowned. F1041.16.7
• Face and body turn black from anger. F1041.16.8
• Chief beheads sentinel who does not recognize him. F1041.16.9
• Man throws cereal and spoon on the floor because he is supposed to eat together with his brother. F1041.16.10
• Earl throws jar of water after undesired messenger. F1041.16.11
• Extraordinary result of fear. (Cf. F950.5, F1041.1.11). F1041.17
• Barrenness as result of fright. F1041.17.1
• Putrescence flows from head when man presses forehead. F1041.18
• Dumbness from disgust. F1041.19
• Person vomits iron. F1041.20
• Reactions to excessive grief. (Cf. F1041.1.1.) F1041.21
• Illness from excessive grief. F1041.21.1
• Tears of blood from excessive grief. F1041.21.1.1
• Man swells from excessive grief. F1041.21.2
• Refusal to eat from excessive grief. F1041.21.3
• Refusal to speak because of grief. F1041.21.3.1
• Man cries at hearing of friend's death. F1041.21.4
• Man senseless from grief at hearing of father's death; one doesn't feel that he cuts himself with his knife, the other presses dice so that he bleeds. F1041.21.5
• Tearing hair and clothes from excessive grief. F1041.21.6
• Wounding self because of excessive grief. F1041.21.6.1
• Bird in great grief tears out feathers. F1041.21.6.2
• Swooning from grief. F1041.21.7
• Deaf and dumb people speak. F1041.22
• Shame causes smoke to rise from saint's head and sweat to stream from his brow. F1041.23
• Slap turns man's face completely around. F1041.24
• Man suddenly acquires long gray beard on scaffold at execution. F1044
• Night spent in tree. Hero goes into tree to spend the night. F1045
• Anchor floats on water. F1047
• Non-buoyant flasks float. F1047.1
• Prodigious weeping. Usually by saint. F1051
• Barrel filled miraculously with penitent's tears. F1051.1
• Miraculously loud noise of mourning for hero. F1051.2
• Bones temporarily removed from body by tree climbers to avoid breaking them. F1054
• Books in church read without man's tongue. F1055
• Hero (giant) wades across sea. F1057
• Flame as miraculous index. F1061
• Flame indicates presence of beautiful woman. (Cf. F1041.8.1. and cross references.) F1061.1
• Color of flame indicates what is burning. Blue for furniture, white for money, red for person. F1061.2
• Burning pit will close only if armed rider will plunge into it. F1061.3
• Flame indicates place where innocent person was murdered. F1061.4
• Departing house. Hero in departing takes his house with him. F1063
• Man fishes up two blind women from a well. F1065
• Arrow shot to heaven returns bloody. F1066
• Knife plunged into earth comes out bloody. F1066.1
• Realistic dream. F1068
• Tokens from a dream. Man brings objects received during dream. F1068.1
• Wound received in dream. Still there when person wakes. F1068.2
• Man is maltreated in dream so that he feels it next day. F1068.2.1
• Fight in dream with real result. F1068.2.2
• Prodigious jump. To fourth story (or the like). F1071
• Crossing a river with help of a fig tree whose branches touch the opposite bank. F1071.1
• Jumping over a ditch which is really an ocean. F1071.2
• Man clears river of enormous width in one leap. F1071.2.1
• Two children of different sex, not related, have such close resemblance that even parents cannot tell them apart. F1072
• Marathon marriage. Woman who has been widowed twenty-two times marries a man who has been a widower twenty times. F1073
• Blood of brother and sister (and smoke from their funeral pyres) refuses to mingle. F1075
• Tightening belt to counteract hunger: when loosened person falls dead. F1076
• Detonation from spark struck for fire hurls ships out to sea. F1078
• Tub of water dropped neither breaks nor spills. F1081
• Person changes color. F1082
• Person has red and black countenance after being burned. F1082.1
• Object rises into the air. F1083
• Object floats in air. F1083.0.1
• Altar floats in air. F1083.0.1.1
• Ark suspended in air. F1083.0.1.2
• Jerusalem suspended in air. F1083.0.1.3
• Stone cross rises into air. F1083.1
• Man and his camels rise into air. F1083.2
• Furious battle. F1084
• Inlay melts from sword with heat of striking. F1084.0.1
• Weapons confined by flying nets of hair in furious battle. F1084.0.2
• Continuous fighting. No rest or food. F1084.0.3
• Marks of furious battle left in rock. F1084.0.4
• Deep streams of blood flow during battle. F1084.1
• Warriors use teeth after they exhaust weapons. F1084.2
• Soldiers fight so closely river is forced from bed. F1084.3
• Eye bursts forth from overstrain of voice. F1085
• Saint preaches for three days and three nights. F1086
• Hero's marvelous sword falls and cuts off hand of enemy. (Cf. F833, N331.) F1087
• Extraordinary escapes. F1088
• Hero (heroine) spared for his (her) beauty. F1088.1
• Hero unharmed by serpent which coils around his waist. F1088.2
• Extraordinary escape from drowning. F1088.3
• Clerics and property cast safely on shore when enemies attempt their drowning. F1088.3.1
• Fisherman dragged through sea by seal escapes. F1088.3.2
• Animal escapes by slipping out of skin. F1088.4
• Food does not spoil saint's clothing. F1091
• Vessel of poisoned ale inverted; only poison flows out. F1092
• Stake miraculously bent during night. F1093
• Milk has taste of wine and honey. F1094
• Arm grows longer from giving alms. F1095
• Person lives on after being cut through by sword. F1096
• Person lives on after having heart cut free. Heart moves about within his chest. F1096.1
• Person lives on with intestines exposed. F1096.2
• Severed head bites earth. F1096.3
• Armies miraculously separated (kept from coming to battle, etc.). F1097
• Angel forbids armies to approach each other. F1097.1
• Object miraculously mended. F1098
• Object miraculously broken. F1098.0.1
• Additional marvels. F1099
• Entire household dies on same night. F1099.1
• Roads miraculously appear on Hallowe'en. (Cf. F900.1.) F1099.2
• Roads miraculously appear on day of hero's birth. F1099.2.1
• Words heard though only thought and not uttered. F1099.3
• Corn takes root in man's hair. F1099.4
• Blades of corn grow through hair of saint as reward for guarding cornkiln. F1099.4.1
• Burning bodies vomit. F1099.5
• Extraordinary plowing. F1099.6
• Extraordinary plowing by teeth. F1099.6.1
• Pious die on their birthday. F1099.7
• Man meets his future descendants and is instructed by them. F1099.8