Category:Motifs and themes in need of categorisation
From CODECS: Online Database and e-Resources for Celtic Studies
Pages in category ‘Motifs and themes in need of categorisation’
The following 191 pages are in this category, out of 191 total.
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B
C
- cannibals and cannibalism (theme)
- characteristics of magic objects
- chastity tests
- clever persons and acts
- cleverness in the law court
- confusion of tongues
- conversion of Jews to Christianity
- cosmogony and cosmology
- creation and ordering of human life (mythology)
- creation of animal life (mythology)
- creation of birds (mythology)
- creation of insects (mythology)
- creation of mammals (mythology)
- creation of man
- creator (mythology)
D
E
- establishment of natural order (mythology)
- evil eye
- external soul
- extraordinary boats and ships
- extraordinary bodies of water
- extraordinary islands
- extraordinary occurrences
- extraordinary places
- extraordinary places and things
- extraordinary rocks and stones
- extraordinary sky and weather phenomena
- extraordinary traits of animals
- extraordinary weapons
- extraordinary well
F
M
- magic animals
- magic birds
- magic boar (pig)
- magic boar drowns houndpack
- magic bodily members (animal)
- magic bodily members (human)
- magic body of water
- magic buildings and parts
- magic clothes
- magic conveyances
- magic drink
- magic fish
- magic food
- magic forests and trees
- magic fruits and vegetables
- magic furniture
- magic gardens and plants
- magic horses
- magic land features
- magic music
- magic musical instruments
- magic object changing person's disposition
- magic objects
- magic ornaments
- magic powers and manifestations
- magic quadrupeds
- magic serpent
- magic utensils and implements
- magic waters and medicines
- magic weapons
- magic weather phenomena
- magical transformation
- malevolent return from the dead
- marriage of person to animal
- marriage tests
- marvellous creatures
- miracle worked by living saint
- miscellaneous animal motifs
- miscellaneous magic objects
- miscellaneous motifs and themes
- miscellaneous tests
- motifs and themes
- motifs and themes relating to verbal and visual communication
- motifs relating to animals
- motifs relating to choices
- motifs relating to cleverness
- motifs relating to magic
- motifs relating to marvels
- motifs relating to ogres
- motifs relating to tests
- motifs relating to the dead
- motifs relating to the soul
- the wise and the foolish
- mythical animals
- mythological motifs
- miracles performed after a saint’s lifetime
O
- object causing magic forgetfulness
- occasional and deliberate cannibalism
- occasional cannibalism
- ogre defeated
- ordering of human life (mythology)
- origin of customs (mythology)
- origin of murder
- origin of plant characteristics (mythology)
- origin of trees and plants (mythology)
- other ogre motifs
- other ogres
- otherworld journeys
- ownership of magic objects
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R
S
T
- tasks by nature
- tests of character
- tests of cleverness
- tests of cleverness or ability
- tests of endurance and power of survival
- tests of fear
- tests of prowess (quests)
- tests of prowess (tasks)
- tests of truth
- tests of vigilance
- the earth (cosmogony and cosmology)
- the heavens (cosmogony and cosmology)
- the universe (cosmogony and cosmology)
- three magical strains of music (súantraige, goltraige and gentraige)
- threefold death
- topographical features of the earth (cosmogony and cosmology)
- treasure animals
