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- Magnetic Mountain Draws Everything to It.

Magnetic Mountain Draws Everything to It. A king’s ship is drawn to a magnetic mountain and smashed to pieces, and the king is washed ashore unconscious [F754]. Advised in a dream [D1814.2, F1068], the king finds a copper bow [D1091] with three lead arrows [D1092]. As instructed he climbs the mountain without looking back [C331] or speaking [C400] and shoots a copper rider off a copper horse in a temple with copper pillars. The rider falls into the sea, and the king buries the horse. The magnetic mountain begins to sink. A copper man arrives in a copper boat and rescues the king at the last moment.
In some variants, the rescuer is a giant bird.

F754

D1814.2

F1068

D1091

D1092

C331

C400

Rich literary tradition; only a few examples from oral tradition.

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