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Group No. 69


Letter

D. Magic

Group No.

D1950 – D2049

Group name

Temporary magic characteristics

Description

D1960. Magic sleep. *Type 410; *BP I 440, III 261; *Fb “sove” III 472b. Irish: *Cross, O’Suilleabhain 35(a), Beal XXI 312; Icelandic: Panzer Sigfrid 113ff., Krappe Scandinavian Studies X (1928) 14 – 25, *Boberg; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 11; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 236; Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 144; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 428, Rasmussen I 310, 367, II 168, 197.
 
D1960.1. Seven sleepers. (Rip Van Winkle.) Magic sleep extending over many years. **Huber Die Wanderlegende von den Siebenschläfern; Type 763*; *Chauvin VII 102 No. 376; *Hartland Science 173ff.; *Frazer Pausanias II 121; Alphabet No. 283; *Loomis White Magic 115. – Irish myth: *Cross; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 18 No. 163; Jewish: Neuman; N. A. Indian: cf. Thompson Tales 314 No. 143.
 
D1960.2. Kyffhäuser. King asleep in mountain (Barbarossa, King Marko, Holger Danske, etc.) will awake one day to succor his people. *BP III 460; *Feilberg Danske Studier (1920) 97ff.; **Weltig Der Sagenkreis des Kyffhäusers (Bremen, 1891); *Wehrhan Die Sage 47ff.; *Hartland Science 170ff.; *Krappe “Die Sage vom König im Berge” (Mitt. d. schles. Gesell. f. Volkskunde XXX (1935) 76 – 102). – Celtic: MacCulloch Celtic 15, 180; England, Scotland, U.S.: *Baughman; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3595; Armenian: Ananikian 34; Jewish: Neuman; Persian: Carnoy 327; India: Thompson-Balys, Keith 173.
 
D1960.4. Deathlike sleep. Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1980. Magic invisibility. *Type 306; *Bolte Reise der Söhne Giaffers 214; *Chauvin VII 39 No. 212B, 103 No. 377; *Loomis White Magic 51; *Fb “usynlig”; Penzer VIII 36f. – Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 65, 208, *Cross; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 189; Icelandic: *Boberg; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. “invisibilité”; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys, Keith 152; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 49, 109f., 134 No. 92. – Africa (Zulu): Callavay 223, (Fang): Trilles 269.
 
D1981. Certain persons invisible. Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys.
 
D1981.1. Magic invisibility of gods. Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 55, *Cross; Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1981.2. Magic invisibility of saints. (Cf. V229.8.) *Toldo IV 80; Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman; Icelandic: Boberg.
 
D1981.5. Magic invisibility of priests. Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1981.6. Magic invisibility of angels. Jewish: Neuman.
 
D2000. Magic forgetfulness. *Cox Cinderella 511; *Kittredge Witchcraft 55, 406 nn. 241, 242. – Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. “oubli”; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 457, Rasmussen III 145.
 
D2004.8. Forgetfulness by mourning. Jewish: Neuman.
 
D2004.9. Forgetfulness caused by specific place. Jewish: Neuman.
 
D2004.9.1. Forgetfulness caused by Tower of Babel. (Cf. F772.1.) Jewish: Neuman.
 
D2004.10. Barking of brazen dogs causes forgetfulness. (Cf. D1620.) Jewish: Neuman.

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