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Group No. 67


Letter

D. Magic

Group No.

D1700 – D1799

Group name

Possession and means of employment of magic power

Description

D1711. Magician. (Cf. D1721.) *Type 325; Dickson 121 n. 64; *Finnur Jónsson “Um galdra, seieth, seiethmenn og völur,” thyjár ritgjörethir (København, 1892) 5 – 28; *Seligmann 6f.; *Penzer IV 39 n. 1, 46ff.; *Fb “klog mand” II 187; Malone PMLA XLIII 400. – Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 299, *Boberg; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Livonian: Loorits FFC LXVI 57ff. Nos. 128 – 159; Lappish: Qvigstad FFC LX 50ff. Nos. 90 – 119; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 162.
 
D1711.1.1. Solomon as master of magicians. **G. Weil Biblische Legenden der Musselmänner (Frankfurt, 1845); *C. C. MacCown Journal of the Palestine Oriental Society II (1922) 1 – 24; **C. Singer Salomosagen in Deutschland (Zs. f. deutsches Altertum XXXV (1891) 177ff.); *E. A. W. Budge The Queen of Sheba (London, 1922); *M. D. Conway Solomon and Solomonic Literature (Chicago, 1900); St. John D. Seymour Tales of King Solomon (Oxford, 1924); *H. A. Winkler Salomo und die Karina: eine orientalische Legende von der Bezwingung einer Kindbettdämonin (Stuttgart, 1931); *Fb “Salomon” III 146b; Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1711.1.2. Esau as magician. Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1711.1.3. Baalam as master of magicians. Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1711.6.2. Aesculapius as magician. Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1711.7.1. Pharaoh as magician. Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1711.10.3. Egyptians as magicians. Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1711.10.4. People of Palmyra as magicians. Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1711.10.5. Amonites as magicians. Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1711.10.6. D1711.10.6. Amalekites as magicians. Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1711.11.1. Baalam‘s family as magicians. Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1712. Soothsayer (diviner, oracle, etc.). (Cf. M301.) *Kittredge Witchcraft 383ff. nn. 61, 62; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 299, *Boberg; England: Baughman; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 138 No. 104; Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 48; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 349; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 254; Africa (Angola): Chatelain 57 No. 2, 139 No. 13, (Congo): Weeks 202 No. 1.
 
D1712.3. Interpreter of dreams. Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1713. Magic power of hermit (saint, yogi). (Cf. P426.2.) **Loomis White Magic; *Plummer passim; Dickson 121 n. 66; Penzer VI 201ff., VII 73, 113f.; *Barry JAFL XXVIII 195; **Toldo Studien zur vgl. Littgsch. I-IX passim; Günter; Irish: *Cross, Beal. XXI 328, O‘Suilleabhain 85; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys (D1711.14, D1711.16.); Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 210, 286. See V220 for cross-references concerning magic powers of saints.
 
D1716.3. Magic power of sterile woman. Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1717. Magic power of children. Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1719.1. Contest in magic. (Cf. H1573.3.) Type 325. – Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 327 n. 182; Eskimo (Greenland): Thalbitzer 7, Rasmussen II 334; S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 139, (Chiriguano): Métraux BBAE CXLIII 3 484.
 
D1719.9.1. Magic power only at night. Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1719.9.2. Magic power at Passover. Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1719.10.1. Magic power only when magician’s feet touch ground. Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1719.11.1. D1719.11.1. Only ten measures of magic allotted to world. Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1721. Magic power from magician. *Type 325; *Chauvin II 151 No. 11; *Fb. “sorte skole” III 469a. – Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 49, 296; English: Wells 43 (Arthour and Merlin); Lappish: Qvigstad FFC LX 49 No. 87; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Werner 383.
 
D1722.1. Magic power from prophet. Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1725. Magic power obtained from angels. Jewish: Neuman, Penzer VI 63.
 
D1725.1. Magic power from Angel of Death (Cf. 1724.). Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1726. D1726. Magic power from deity. Irish myth: Cross; Greek: Grote I 105; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys.
 
D1731. Magic power received in dream. Dickson 188; Jewish: Neuman; Calif. Indian: Gayton and Newman 58; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen I 134.
 
D1735.2. Language acquired by swallowing its written characters. Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1738. Magic arts studied. Jewish: Neuman; Chinese: Graham.
 
D1739.1. Magic power from overheard talk of spirits. Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1739.2. Magic power from heavenly voice. Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1745.1. Magic power not effective on men born on certain day. Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1745.2. Magic power rendered ineffective by pious deeds. Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1751. Magic passes from body to body. Jewish: Neuman; India: Tawney I 417.
 
D1761. Magic results produced by wishing. **Riklin Wuncherfüllung und Symbolik in Märchen. (1908); *Fb “ønske” III 1178a. – Irish myth: *Cross; German: Grimm Nos. 50, 76; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Seneca: Curtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 122 No. 19; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 151.
 
D1765. Magic results produced by command. Italian Novella: Rotunda; Babylonian: Spence 76f.; Jewish: Neuman, Genesis 1:3, etc.
 
D1766.2. Magic results produced by sacrifices. Irish: O’Suilleabhain 89, Beal XXI 329; Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1766.7.1. Magic results produced in name of deity. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
D1774. Magic results from speaking. Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1776. D1776. Magic results from spitting. Jewish: Neuman; Eskimo (Koryak): Jochelson JE VI 170.
 
D1782. Sympathetic magic. Magic results obtained by imitating desired action. *Frazer Golden Bough XII 481 s.v. “Sympathetic magic”; *Andree Ethnographische 8ff. – Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman; Hindu: Penzer III 38, VI 24 n., 133, IX 27 n. 1; N. A. Indian (Blackfoot): Wissler and Duvall PaAM II 128, (Maliseet): Mechling GSCan IV 100 No. 29, (Arapaho): Dorsey and Kroeber FM V 271 No. 120, (Pawnee): Dorsey CI LIX 160 No. 43, (Micmac): Parsons JAFL XXXVIII 78 No. 11, Rand 370 No. 71, (Seneca): Curtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 186 No. 35, 457 No. 94, 659 No. 127.
 
D1788. Magic results from bathing. (Cf. D562, D925, D2161.4.14.) Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1791. Magic power by circumambulation. (Cf. G224.8, D1272.) *Fb “rundt” III 96b; Frazer Golden Bough X 233ff.; *Penzer X 109 s.v. “circumambulation”; Cowell Jataka index s.v. “rightwise”; Cosquin Études 356ff.; *Saintyves Essais 196ff. – Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1793.1. Characteristics of animal acquired by eating it. Jewish: Neuman; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 227.
 
D1794. Magic results from kissing. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman.
 
D1799.6. Magic results from performing good deeds. Jewish: Neuman.

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