In need of small magical talents

Ability to properly categorize fantasy subgenres.

Make time back up for a minute. That could be really handy at times.

- Ensuring garments never unravel.
- Preventing (or ensuring) pregnancy - someone could make a lot of money from this in a world without reliable contraception or fertility treatments.
- Ability to accurately predict the weather, but only within a relatively small radius (say, a couple of miles of their homestead) and a few days, at most, in advance.
- Ability to hold hot things - metal, glass, burning firewood, stone, etc. - in your bare hands without burning (shamelessly cribbed from Tamora Pierce).
- Ability to accurately recall song lyrics after only hearing a song once (useful to a bard?).
- Never have to sharpen anything, whether it's a sword, eating knife, pin, pen, needle, one's tongue...
- Able to quickly fix anything - perhaps with the drawback that the fix only lasts for a few hours or days - useful in a pinch, but never a long-term solution.

Brightdreamer said:

You might read some lighter fantasy. These sound like some of the lesser powers from Piers Anthony's Xanth universe.

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That's the exact series that first came to my mind, as well!