Shoe
The shoe denotes the shod foot of civilisation, marking rank, ownership and travel, carried off in tales of recognition, and magically swift in seven- league form.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Image
- Group
- Human World / Tools and Other Objects
- Borne by
- 1 figure
- Traditions
- Irish folklore (1)
Figures that bear it
A model judged each figure against its own description, one term at a time. Is: the figure is a kind of this thing. Bears: it carries the thing or is marked by it. What a figure does is filed under motifs and powers. Open "why" for the sentence the judgement rests on.
- Leprechaun bears Irish folklore
why
He is frequently pictured mending a single shoe, and the tapping of his cobbler's hammer is said to be the sound by which he can be located.