Cat mutilates corpses — Mythoi

Motif

Cat mutilates corpses.

Animals. · Fanciful traits of animals. · Fanciful habits of animals. · view the constellation · filed as B766.1

Filed across the traditions

U.S. Baughman
North Carolina Brown Collection I 638.
general *Kittredge Witchcraft 178 n. 41

Within the index

Filed under Fanciful dangers from animals.

1 finer motif beneath it

Cat must be kept from dying person because it will catch the person's soul issuing (from mouth) in form of mouse. (Cf. E731.3.)

Filed beside it

Cat sucks sleeping child's breath Toads suck blood Bite of white she-mule causes certain death

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