Motif-Index of Folk-Literature
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magic
magic aging
magic animals
magic animals: miscellaneous motifs
magic automata
magic beautification
magic birds, fish, reptiles, etc.
magic bodily members
magic bodily members -- animal
magic bodily members – human
magic body of water
magic buildings and parts
magic changes in man himself
magic clothes
magic control of the elements
magic conveyances
magic drink
magic dumbness
magic flight
magic food
magic forests
magic forgetfulness
magic fruits and vegetables
magic furniture
magic gardens and plants
magic hideousness
magic invisibility
magic invulnerability
magic knowledge
magic land features
magic memory
magic musical instruments
magic object
magic object a gift
magic object acquired by trickery
magic object affords miraculous transportation
magic object as provider
magic object changes person’s disposition
magic object controls disease
magic object controls the elements
magic object draws person (thing) to it
magic object effects temporary change in person
magic object found
magic object furnishes treasure
magic object gives power over animals
magic object gives power over other persons
magic object gives supernatural information
magic object gives supernatural wisdom
magic object miraculously opens and closes
magic object otherwise obtained
magic object overcomes person
magic object performs other services for owner
magic object protects
magic object pursues or captures
magic object renders person helpless
magic object rescues person
magic objects
magic objects effect changes in persons
magic objects works physical change
magic ornaments
magic power from animal
magic powers and manifestations
magic quadrupeds
magic rejuvenation
magic sight and hearing
magic sleep
magic speaking objects
magic strength
magic transportation
magic tree
magic used property
magic utensils and implements
magic waters and medicines
magic wealth
magic weapons
magic weather phenomena
malevolent or destructive fairies (pixies)
malevolent return from the dead
malevolent return from the dead
man made from mineral substance
man made from vegetable substance
man unwittingly commits crime
manifestations of magic power
mankind made from miscellaneous materials
man’s growth and maturity
marital impostures
marplot at creation
marriage
marriage
marriage customs
marriage of person to animal
marriage or liaison with fairy
marriage tests
marriage to animal in human form
marriage to person in animal form
married life
married life
marvelous creatures
marvelous cures
marvels
mass
master and servant
material rewards
means of entering house or treasury
means of hoodwinking the guardian or owner
means of producing magic power
means of solving riddles
means of transformation
meddling punished
meetings of the dead
members of dupe’s family killed
metaphorical riddles
metaphors literally interpreted
mildness triumphs over violence
military affairs
military strategy
miracle manifested to non-believers
miraculous birth
miraculous conception
miraculous or magic rewards
miraculous punishments
miscellaneous actions of revenants
miscellaneous animal motifs
miscellaneous aspects of wisdom
miscellaneous circumstances of transformation
miscellaneous clever acts
miscellaneous deceptions
miscellaneous explanations
miscellaneous explanations: characteristics
miscellaneous explanations: origins
miscellaneous gods of the earth
miscellaneous groups of motifs
miscellaneous lies and exaggerations
miscellaneous lies and exaggerations
miscellaneous magic objects
miscellaneous magical manifestations
miscellaneous otherworlds
miscellaneous punishments
miscellaneous punishments for breaking tabu
miscellaneous quests
miscellaneous reasons for plant characteristics
miscellaneous service of helpful animals
miscellaneous tabus
miscellaneous tabus
miscellaneous tasks
miscellaneous tests
miscellaneous transformation incidents
miscellaneous worlds
misdeeds concerning property punished
misfortune with oneself to blame the hardest
modest business plans best
modest choice best
modest request best
modesty brings reward
modesty brings reward
monstrous births
monstrous persons
moon-god
motive for transformation of others
mountain-spirits
murder by strategy
murderer or captor otherwise beguiled
murders
mutilations
mutual relations of the gods
mythical animals
mythical beasts and hybrids
mythical birds
mythical fish
mythological motifs