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Group No. 64


Letter

D. Magic

Group No.

D1550 – D1599

Group name

Magic object miraculously opens and closes

Description

D1551.2. Magic rod causes waters to divide and close. (Cf. D1254.2.) Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: Neuman; Africa (Kaffir): Theal 129.
 
D1552.2. Mountain opens to magic formula (Open Sesame). (Cf. D1273.) *Type 676; BP III 137. – Jewish: Neuman; Gaster Oldest Stories 132; Icelandic: Boberg; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 108, 226; Tahiti: Dixon 63; New Zealand, Samoa, Mongaia (Cook Group), Tahiti, British New Guinea, Halmahera: ibid., 48 nn. 37 – 41; Am. Negro (Georgia): Harris Friends 81 No. 11; Africa (Zulu): Callaway 143.
 
D1556. Self-opening tree-trunk. (Cf. D950.) Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys.
 
D1557.4. Gate of temple opens and shuts by magic. (Cf. D1131.) Jewish: Neuman.
 
Magic horn blows down wall. (Cf. D1222.) *Type 569; BP I 464ff. Cf. Joshua 6:20; Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1564. Magic object splits or cuts things. Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1566.2.6. Salamander’s blood quenches fire. (Cf. D1016.) Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1567. Magic object produces fountain. (Cf. D925.1.) Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1567.5. Saint’s tears produce fountain. (Cf. D1004.) Irish: Plummer cl, Cross; Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1567.6. Stroke of staff brings water from rock. (Cf. D927.1, D1254.) *Saintyves Essais 139ff; Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1586.1. Magic image of animal relieves from plague (of that animal). (Cf. D1266.2, D1500.2.3.) Liebrecht Germania X (1865) 408, Zur Volkskunde 85 No. 9, 88 No. 2. – Hebrew: I Samuel 6:4 – 5, *Neuman.
 
D1586.3. Incense relieves from plague. Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1595.1. Image of love grants man wife. (Cf. D1268.) Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1599.5. Magic charm uproots mandrake. (Cf. D1273.) Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1599.6. Magic dew destroys enemy‘s books. (Cf. D902.2.) Jewish: Neuman.

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