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Group No. 65


Letter

D. Magic

Group No.

D1600 – D1649

Group name

Automatic magic objects

Description

D1601.18.2. Self-playing violin. (Cf. D1233.) Type 577; Christiansen 87; Fb “spille” III 488a; *Loomis White Magic 52. – Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. “violon”; Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1602.3. Self-returning robe. (Cf. D1052.) Jewish: Neuman; N. A. Indian: Thompson Tales 303 n. 109; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 277, Holm 94, (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 40.
 
D1610.2. Speaking tree. (Cf. D950, D1317.20.) Köhler Aufsätze 19ff.; Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys.
 
D1610.10.1. Speaking grapes. (Cf. D981.8.) Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1610.10.3. Speaking fig. (Cf. D981.5.) Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1610.14.2. Speaking axe. (Cf. D1206.) Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1610.14.3. Speaking hammer. (Cf. D1209.4.) Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1610.18. Speaking rock (stone). (Cf. D931.) Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham.
 
D1610.22. Speaking nut. (Cf. D985.) Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1610.27.3. Diamond speaks from inside statue. (Cf. D1071.) Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1610.30. Speaking timber. (Cf. D956.) Greek: Grote I 214, 229; Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1610.36. Speaking water. (Cf. D1242.1.) Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1611.17. Magic bone answers for fugitive. (Cf. D1007.) Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1615.4. Singing water. (Cf. D1242.1.) *Type 707; *BP II 380; Köhler-Bolte I 118; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys.
 
D1615.9. Singing heavens and earth. Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1618.1. Magic weeping waters. (Cf. D910.) Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1618.2. Magic weeping stone. (Cf. D931.) Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1618.3. Magic weeping altar. (Cf. D1166.) Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1620.1. Automatic statue of man. Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: Neuman; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 230f.
 
D1620.1.6.1. Magic statue of man fights for master. Jewish: Neuman; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 428.
 
D1620.1.7. Speaking statue of man. (Cf. D1610.) Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1620.2. Automatic statue of animal. Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys.
 
D1620.2.4. Automatic statue of lion. Jewish: Gaster Exempla 209 No. 115, Neuman.
 
D1620.2.8. Automatic statue of dog. Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1620.2.9. Automatic brazen serpent. Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1624. Image bleeds. Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 459.
 
D1625.1. Statue sheds tears of blood. (Cf. D1624.) Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1626. Image flies through air. Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1635. Golem. Automatic statue animated by insertion of written magic formula into an opening. *Penzer III 59; Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1641.1. Fountain (well) removes itself. (Cf. D925, D926, D927, D941.) Irish: Plummer cli, *Cross (D1641.1, D1641.13); Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1641.2. Stones remove themselves. (Cf. D931.) Fb “sten” III 553a; Irish: O’Suilleabhain 85, Beal XXI 328, *Cross; England: *Baughman; Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1641.7. Severed head moves from place to place. (Cf. D992.) Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1641.7.1. Self-rolling head. Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1643.2. Rock travels. (Cf. D931) Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys.
 
D1645.1. Incandescent jewel. (Cf. D1071.) *Chauvin V 4 No. 443; *Penzer III 167; *Reinhard PMLA XXXVIII 434 n. 32; *Cosquin indiens 246ff.; Fb “edelsten”; *Boje 81; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas@2 I 217, 375, Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Werner 274.
 
D1648.3. Stones prostrate themselves before certain persons. (Cf. D931.) Jewish: Neuman.

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