Origin of disease — Mythoi

Motif

Origin of disease.

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

Filed across the traditions

Greek Grote I 72 (Pandora's Box)
Buddhist myth Malalasekera I 461
India *Thompson-Balys
Chinese Eberhard FFC CXX 187. – Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 278, 282
Hawaii Beckwith Myth 113, 502
general *Dh I 98ff. – Finnish Kalevala rune 45 → on our shelf: The Kalevala, Rune XLV
general Shasta: Frachtenberg JAFL XXVIII 227
general S. Am. Indian (Cubeo): Goldman BBAE CXLIII (3) 798.

Within the index

Filed under Beginnings of trouble for man.

15 finer motifs beneath 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 itch Origin of leprosy Origin of smallpox Origin of illness from fire and cold

Filed beside it

Paradise lost. Original happy state forfeited because of one sin Confusion of tongues. Originally all men speak same language. Because of a sin they come to speak different languages Origin of death Origin of murder Origin of physical defects. Wicked people entering heaven on rope fall to earth and are injured. St. Peter misunderstands what God says and lets them fall Origin of blindness Origin of war among men Origin of quarrelling Origin of lying Origin of tears and sighs Origin of hunger Man to earn bread by sweat of his brow. (Cf. A1331.1.) Mankind's escape from trouble

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