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Group No. 72


Letter

D. Magic

Group No.

D2150 – D2199

Group name

Miscellaneous magical manifestations

Description

D2151. Magic control of waters. (Cf. D1242.1.) Irish myth: *Cross: Jewish: Neuman.
 
D2151.0.2. Waters made to dry up. Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys.
 
D2151.1. Magic control of seas. (Cf. D911.) Irish: Plummer cxlvii, *Cross; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 230, 453.
 
D2151.2. Magic control of rivers. *Loomis White Magic 40f.; Irish: Plummer cxlvii – cxlviii, *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: Neuman; Persian: Carnoy 339.
 
D2158. Magic control of fires. (Cf. D1271.) Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: Neuman.
 
D2161. Magic healing power. *Type 712; *Kittredge Witchcraft 30, 385 n. 64; *Fb “sygdom” III 699b; *Weinrich Antike Heilungswunder (Giessen, 1909); Wesselski Mönchslatein 136 No. 116; Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 118; Eskimo (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 170, 193, 240, 248, (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 43, 82, (Greenland): Rink 279, 327, 370, 431, 440, 459, 467, Rasmussen III 172, 190, 209.
 
D2161.2. Magic cure of wound. (Cf. D1503.) Finnish: Kalevala rune 9; English: Wells 80 (Sir Tristrem); Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1224; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 113, 440.
 
D2161.3.1. Blindness magically cured. (Cf. D1505.) Fb “blind” IV 45b; Irish myth: *Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1153, 1234.
 
D2161.3.6. Dumbness magically cured. (Cf. D2020.) Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman.
 
D2161.3.8. Insanity magically cured. (Cf. D2065.) Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman.
 
D2161.3.10. Sterility magically cured. Jewish: Neuman.
 
D2161.3.11. Barrenness magically cured. (Cf. D1347.2, D1501.1, D1925.1.) Jewish: Neuman.
 
D2161.4.9.1. Other religious ceremony as magic cure. Sign of cross, prayer, etc. Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman.
 
D2161.5.1. Cure by holy man. *Kittredge Witchcraft 124ff., 449f. nn. 1 – 33 passim; *Toldo I 331; Irish myth: *Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: Neuman.
 
D2161.5.5. Cure by angel. (Cf. V232.) Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman.
 
D2161.6.2. Diseases cured in Messeanic era. (Cf. A1095.) Jewish: Neuman.
 
D2161.6.3. Diseases cured at holy man’s birth. Jewish: Neuman.
 
D2163. Magic defense in battle. (Cf. K2350.) Tawney I 362, 367n., Jewish: Neuman.
 
D2167. Corpse magically saved from corruption. (Cf. V52.14.) Tawney II 540; Saintyves De l’incorruption des corps saints (Bull. et. Mem. de la Soc. d‘Anthrop. des Paris, 7th ser. IV [1923] 84 – 100). – Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. “cadavre”; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: *Neuman; Easter Island: Métraux Ethnology 311.
 
D2171. Magic adhesion. (Cf. D1413.) *Type 593; Fb “holde” IV 219b; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 102; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys.
 
D2171.1.3. Person magically sticks to floor (ground). Irish myth: Cross (D2171.7); Jewish: *Neuman; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 325, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 237.
 
D2175. Cursing by magic. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 299, 268, 111; Jewish: Neuman; Irish myth: Cross.
 
D2175.5. Curse magically changed to blessing. Jewish: Neuman.
 
D2176. Exorcising by magic. Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys.
 
D2176.3. Evil spirit exorcised. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
D2177.1. Demon enclosed in bottle. *Type 331; *Goebel Jüdische Motive im märchenhaften Erzählungsgut (Gleiwitz, 1932) 52ff.; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 311 No. 39, 314 No. 105, 320 No. 34; Jewish: Neuman; Chinese: Graham; Philippine: Fansler MAFLS XII 439.
 
D2178.4.2. Noxious animals produced by magic. Jewish: Neuman.
 
D2188.2. Person vanishes. Jewish: Neuman; Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 48, 54, Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 3/1241).
 
D2197. Magic dominance over animals. (Cf. D1440, D2074.1.) Jewish: Neuman.
 
D2198. Magic control of spirits (angels). Jewish: *Neuman.

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