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Invisibility

Abaris

magic arrow made him invisible. [Gk. Myth.: Benét, 1]

agate

confers this power. [Rom. Folklore: Brewer Dictionary,15]

Ariel

invisible spirit plays tricks on the castaways. [Br. Drama: Shakespeare The Tempest]

Cheshire

cat vanishes at will; grin the last feature to go. [Br. Lit.: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland]

chrysoprase

put in mouth, renders bearer invisible. [Gem Symbolism: Kunz, 67–68]

Emperor’s New Clothes

supposed to be invisible to anyone unworthy of his post. [Dan. Lit.: Andersen “The Emperor’s New Clothes” in Andersen’s Fairy Tales]

fern seed

makes bearer invisible. [Western Folklore: Brewer Dictionary, 406]

glory, hand of

severed hand of hanged man renders bearer invisible. [Western Folklore: Leach, 477]

Gyges’s ring

confers this power. [Gk. Folklore: Brewer, Dictionary, 497]

Harvey

six-foot rabbit invisible to everyone but the play’s protagonist. [Am. Lit.: Benét, 444]

heliotrope

effective if drunk with proper invocations. [Medieval Folklore: Boland, 43]

Invisible Man

(Griffin) character made invisible by chemicals. [Br. Lit.: Invisible Man]

Mambrino’s Helmet

golden helmet makes wearer invisible. [Span. Lit.: Don Quixote]

Perseus’s helmet

made him invisible when he killed Medusa. [Gk. Myth.: Metamorphoses]

Reynard the Fox’s ring

when ring becomes green, Reynard is invisible. [Medieval Lit.: Reynard the Fox]

tarnhelm

golden helmet that allowed its wearer to assume any form or even become invisible. [Ger. Opera: Wagner The Ring of the Nibelung]

tarnkappe

cloak taken from the Nibelungs by Siegfried grants the wearer invisibility and strength. [Ger. Lit.: Nibelungenlied]