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Prevuius group

Group No. 84


Letter

F. Marvels

Group No.

F900 – F1099

Group name

Extraordinary occurrences

Description

F900.1.2. Miracles on first night of Passover. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
F900.2. All miracles created by God at creation. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
F900.3.1. Miracles in the desert come to an end with death of Miriam, Aaron and Moses. Jewish: Neuman.
 
F911.4 Testament III 82; *H. Schmidt Jona 127f.; *Wesselski Märchen 213 No. 18; Clouston Tales I 403ff. – Irish myth: *Cross; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 11; Italian: Basile Pentamerone V No. 8, Rotunda; Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas@2 IV 27, 275, *Neuman; Babylonian: Spence 87; India: *Thompson-Balys, *Penzer II 193, VI 154 n. 3, Keith 173; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 261; Oceanic (Cook Group, Melanesia, Indonesia): Dixon 69, De Vries‘s list No. 211; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 443; Marquesas: Handy 137; S. A. Indian (Bakairi): Alexander Lat. Am. 313.
rson becomes bald. Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 132, 437; Tuamotu: ibid 503; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 322 n. 159b.
 
F929.2. Man swallows reptiles. Jewish: Neuman.
 
F930.3. Water sinks to bottom, mud rises to surface to keep prophet from drowning. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
F930.4. Waters transformed to blood for Egyptians but not for Hebrews. (Cf. D474.) Jewish: *Neuman.
 
F930.5. Water stops flowing when no longer needed. Jewish: Neuman.
 
F930.6. Water chants song. (Cf. D1614.4, F931.12.) Jewish: *Neuman.
 
F930.7. Waters dissolve mill-stones. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
F931.7. Sea changes color. German: Grimm No. 19; Jewish: *Neuman.
 
F931.9. Passing through sea unscathed. (Cf. D1551.) Jewish: *Neuman.
 
F931.9.1. Waters of sea arch over people like a vault. (Cf. F932.2.) Jewish: *Neuman.
 
F931.9.2. Sea yields people whatever they desire. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
F931.9.2.1. Sea flows sweet water. Jewish: Neuman.
 
F931.9.2.2. Sea bears fruits. Jewish: Neuman.
 
F931.9.3. Paths open up in sea for each tribe (one for each of Israel‘s tribes). Jewish: *Neuman.
 
F931.10. Sea piles up to height of sixteen hundred miles. Jewish: Neuman.
 
F931.11. Speaking sea. (Cf. D1610, F932.12.) Jewish: *Neuman.
 
F931.12. Seas sing hymns of praise. (Cf. F930.6.) Jewish: Neuman.
 
F932.6. River ceases to flow. Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman.
 
F932.8.6. River piles up to a height of three hundred miles. Jewish: Neuman.
 
F932.12. Speaking river (brook). (Cf. D1614.4, F930.6, F931.11.) Jewish: Neuman.
 
F933.1. Miraculous spring bursts forth for holy person. Dh II 26; *Toldo VI 310ff.; Saintyves Le Miracle de l’apparition des eaux dans ses relations avec les liturgies païennes et chrétiennes (Revue de l‘Université de Bruxelles, 1912, 265 – 94); Irish myth: *Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: *Neuman.
 
F933.1.3. Well rises so holy person does not have to draw from it. Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys.
 
F933.1.3.1. Well rises so maiden can draw without exerting herself. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
F933.1.3.2. Well rises for pious man’s sheep. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
F941. Building sinks into earth. Irish: *Cross, O‘Suilleabhain 79; Jewish: *Neuman.
 
F941.1. Castle sinks into earth. Wesselski Märchen 200; Jewish: Neuman.
 
F941.2.3. Temple swallowed by earth. Jewish: Neuman.
 
F941.3.1. Unfinished Tower of Babel sinks into earth. (Cf. F772.1.) Jewish: Neuman.
 
F942. Man sinks into earth. U.S.: Baughman; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 372, Rasmussen III 185, (Smith Sound): Kroeber JAFL XII 182; West Indies: Flowers 438.
 
F942.1. Ground opens and swallows up person. Irish: *Cross, Beal XXI 327; Icelandic: *Boberg; Greek: Fox 63 (Althaimenes), 227 (Persephone), Frazer Apollodorus II 241 n. 5; Jewish: *Neuman; Africa: Werner African 200.
 
F942.1.1. Ground opens to hide fugitive. U.S.: Baughman; Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: Neuman; Eskimo (Kodiak): Golder JAFL XVI 28.
 
F948.1.1. Earth swallows up Temple vessels. Jewish: Neuman.
 
F952. Blindness miraculously cured. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. ”aveugle“; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 25.
 
F960.1.2. Extraordinary nature phenomena at birth of hero. (Cf. T583, V222.) Jewish: *Neuman.
 
F960.2.6.1. Sun shines but two hours the day of hero’s funeral. Jewish: Neuman.
 
F960.3. Extraordinary nature phenomena during furious battle. (Cf. F1084.) Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman.
 
F960.3.1. Nature‘s lament at the Temple’s destruction. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
F960.10. Extraordinary natural phenomena at giving of Tora at Mount Sinai. Jewish: Neuman.
 
F961.0.2. Eclipse of sun and moon in God‘s proximity. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
F961.0.3. Heavenly bodies lament. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
F961.0.3.1. Sun, moon, and stars do not shine seven days, mourning Adam’s death. Jewish: Neuman.
 
F961.0.4. God‘s praise chanted by the heavenly bodies. (Cf. A659.1, A767.) Jewish: *Neuman.
 
F961.0.5. Heavenly bodies bear witness for and against man. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
F961.0.6. Heavens bleed. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
F961.1.2. Sun travels from west to east. Greek: Frazer Apollodorus II 164 n. 1; Jewish: Gaster Exempla 185 No. 2b, 201 No. 78, *Neuman.
 
F961.1.5. Sun shines during night. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman.
 
F961.1.5.2. Sun reappears after being set. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
F961.1.5.3. Sun does not set. Jewish: Neuman.
 
F961.1.5.3.1. Sunset delayed many hours. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
F961.1.9. Eclipse of sun at important historical events. (Cf. A737.) Jewish: Neuman.
 
F961.1.10. Sun sets early to hide fugitive. (Cf. R310.) Jewish: Neuman.
 
F961.2.4. Stars and planets speak. Jewish: Neuman.
 
F961.2.5.1. Constellations bewail man’s death. Jewish: Neuman.
 
F961.2.6. Fighting stars melt iron chariots. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
F961.2.7. Star swallows four other stars. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
F961.2.8.
 
F962.0.2. Storm overturns idol. Jewish: Neuman.
 
F962.2. Fire from heaven. *Saintyves Essais de folklore biblique 1ff.; Irish: Plummer cxxxvii, cxxxviii, *Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: Moreno Esdras, *Neuman.
 
F962.2.1. Sacrifice consumed by heavenly fire. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
F962.2.2. Pillar of fire reaches from heaven to earth. (Cf. F774.2.1.) Jewish: *Neuman.
 
F962.2.3. Fire from heaven cannot be quenched by water. Jewish: Neuman.
 
F962.2.4. Fire from heaven burns and freezes. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
F962.2.5. Extraordinary hot rain. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
F962.5.2. Rain of fiery hailstones. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
F962.6. Shower of food. Jewish: Neuman.
 
F962.8.2. Rain of jewels. Jewish: Neuman.
 
F964.0.1. Pillar of fire (in sky). Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman.
 
F965.2. Sun darkened at death of holy person. Usener Kleine Schriften IV 307; Jewish: Neuman; Icelandic: *Boberg.
 
F965.3. Impenetrable darkness. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
F965.4. Extraordinary darkness not dispelled by artificial means. Jewish: Neuman.
 
F966. Voices from heaven (or from the air). *Penzer X 220 s.v. ”Heaven“; Alphabet No. 800; *Loomis White Magic 53; Irish: *Cross, Beal XXI 314, 318, O‘Suilleabhain 38, 49; Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas@2 I 367, *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys.
 
F971.1. Dry rod blossoms. *Type 756 ABC, 757; BP III 463, 465, 471 n. 1; *Dh II 265ff.; Fb ”nåde“ II 726b, ”stav“ III 541b; RTP IX 504, XIII 505, XV 61, XIX 66, 336, 532, XXI 123, XXV 141; **Andrejev FFC LIV 34, LXIX 126, 129ff., 241ff.; Saintyves Essais de folklore biblique 61ff.; Zs. f. Vksk. X 196f., XIII 72, XV 393; Alphabet No. 568; *Loomis White Magic 94, 114; Goebel Jüdische Motive im märchenhafte Erzählungsgut (Gleiwitz, 1932) 34ff.; Irish: Plummer cliv, *Cross, O’Suilleabhain 108, Beal XXI 318, 334; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 186; Jewish: *Neuman; West Indies: Flowers 438.
 
F971.8. Trees put forth leaves on arrival of God in paradise. Jewish: Neuman.
 
F979.5.1. Unconsumed burning bush. Jewish: Neuman.
 
F979.17. Plants grow without being sown. Jewish: Neuman.
 
F979.18. Grass grows anew every night. (Cf. F971.1.3.) Jewish: Neuman.
 
F979.19. Extraordinary tree supports pious man and his family. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
F979.20. Tree‘s branches turn upward when idolators rest beneath it. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
F979.23. Trees wither when tragic things happen. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
F988.2. Hoofs of horses drop from their feet because of heat. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
F988.3. Apertures of animals‘ bodies closed up in certain land. Jewish: Neuman.
 
F989.5. Sheep never harmed by wild beasts. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
F989.5.1. Sheep kill wolves. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
F989.16.1. Swarms of quails serve as food for Israelites. Jewish: Neuman.
 
F989.16.2. Swarms of birds darken sun and moon. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
F989.17. Marvelously swift horse. Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys.
 
F989.23. Frog pierces hardest metals and marbles. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
F989.24. Frogs cast themselves into oven-flames and devour bread. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
F991.1.1. Bleeding knife. Jewish: Neuman.
 
F991.5. Bleeding rock. Jewish: *Neuman.

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