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- Creator uses particular formula (letters) to create universe. A611.0.1
- Devil as Earth Diver. Satan dives for earth at instance of God. Succeeds only third time (by use of right formula). He hides the earth under his tongue. It swells, and he must be rescued by God. A812.1
- Petrification by magic written formula. D573.2
- Disenchantment by repeating magic formula. D789.6
- Magic charm (formula) used injudiciously brings death to owner's wife, children, himself. D806.2
- Magic object recovered through recitation of magic formula. D886
- Magic formula (charm). D1273
- Magic formula renders invisible. (Cf. D1273.) D1361.26
- Escape from prison by use of charm (formula). (Cf. D1273.) D1395.6
- Serpent charmed into helplessness by magic formula. (Cf. D1273.) D1410.5
- Magic formula causes persons to stick together. (Cf. D1273.) D1413.0.1.1
- Magic formula causes sea to open up. (Cf. D1273.) D1551.9
- Mountain opens to magic formula (Open Sesame). (Cf. D1273.) D1552.2
- Magic formula causes silver to hide itself in mountain. (Cf. D1273.) D1555.3
- Magic formula causes tree to open. (Cf. D1273.) D1556.1
- Golem. Automatic statue animated by insertion of written magic formula into an opening. D1635
- Magic results of reversing a spell. Formula said backward will sometimes undo the work performed by the formula. (Cf. D1273.) D1783.1
- Invisibility by reciting formula backwards. D1985.2
- Forgetting by stumbling. A name or formula is magically forgotten when one stumbles (or jumps). D2004.5
- Power of wild hunt evaded by formula. (Cf. D1273.) E501.17.4.2