Motif
Enchanted music that causes sleep
enchanted_music_that_causes_sleep
A motif of the Enchanting Music and Sound Power family, within the sub-family Sleep and Emotional Enchantment. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
2 occurrences
2 traditions
celtic (1) · celtic irish (1)
celtic
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Gods and Fighting Men BOOK TWO: FINN'S HELPERS / CHAPTER I. THE LAD OF THE SKINS / CHAPTER II. BLACK, BROWN, AND GREY / CHAPTER III. THE HOUND; lines 6844-6936 confidence: medium
The three young men promise to watch, bear the weight of battles, meet troubles, satisfy wants, use a sleep-making pipe, and provide food through the hound and one of themselves on alternating nights.
One of the Iruath men says he has a pipe whose sound would put all the men of the world to sleep, including those in sickness.
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celtic irish
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Gods and Fighting Men CHAPTER I. THE LANDING / CHAPTER II. THE BATTLE OF TAILLTIN / BOOK FOUR: THE EVER-LIVING LIVING ONES. / CHAPTER I. BODB DEARG; lines 2984-3048 confidence: high
Lir gives swords and spears; Angus Og gives a rath and town; Aine gives an inexhaustible cook; Bodb gives Fertuinne, a musician whose music makes sufferers and wounded men sleep and can be heard throughout the country.
Fertuinne's music is described as making even people in pain or wounded men sleep and as audible across the surrounding country.
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