Origin of itch

Motif

Origin of itch.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Ordering of human life. · Beginnings of trouble for man. · view the constellation · filed as A1337.5

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 1
Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter III III. Sympathetic Magic
Greek Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica , THE CATALOGUES OF WOMEN AND EOIAE
Literary Crystallization Moby-Dick; or, The Whale , 1

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Origin of disease.

Filed beside it

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 sickness and misfortune: monstrous births from brother-sister incestuous union Origin of ulcers Origin of cholera Origin of epilepsy Origin of fever Origin of leprosy Origin of smallpox Origin of illness from fire and cold

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