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- Title
The Motif of a Magic Staff/Club/Stick in Märchen: in a flexible numerical series of no fixed number; semi-personified; solo and semi-personified in a modern fantasy novel; possibly with one Indic source in Tantric practice; with more than one function; and in motif-clusters with various companions
- Authors
SIRCAR, SANJAY
- Abstract
The article offers information on the motif of a magic stick/club/staff which beats thieves in Märchen that is usually found in folktale type forms AT 563 "The Table, the Ass and the Stick." It highlights the non-Indic analogues in black tradition with just an object that offers beatings and desirable things. It explores stories in the "Madanakamarajankadai," a seventeenth-century Tamil literary folklore text, that have the same magic instrument of punishment in various sort of story.
- Subjects
FAIRY tales; TALE (Literary form); THIEVES; MAGIC paraphernalia; PUNISHMENT
- Publication
Tradition Today, 2018, Issue 7, p20
- ISSN
2050-0920
- Publication type
Article