Origin of sickness and misfortune: monstrous births from brother-sister incestuous union

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Origin of sickness and misfortune: monstrous births from brother-sister incestuous union.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Ordering of human life. · Beginnings of trouble for man. · view the constellation · filed as A1337.0.7

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

IndiaThompson-Balys.

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Filed under Origin of disease.

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Disease caused by the gods Disease caused by ghosts Disease caused by witchcraft Disease caused by menstrual blood. (Cf. D1003.)Disease as punishment Disease to prevent man enjoying himself too much Origin of ulcers Origin of cholera Origin of epilepsy Origin of fever Origin of itch Origin of leprosy Origin of smallpox Origin of illness from fire and cold

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