Ghoulish charm. Charm made from parts of corpse or things associated with corpse

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Ghoulish charm. Charm made from parts of corpse or things associated with corpse.

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

Eskimo (Greenland)Rink 148, 173, 347, Rasmussen II 233, III 105, Holm 15, (Bering Strait): Nelson RBAE XVIII 495.
general *Kittredge Witchcraft 141ff., 458ff. nn. 1–55

Within the index

Filed under Miscellaneous magic objects.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Magic churchyard mould Sorcerers use marrow of corpses' bones

Filed beside it

Magic chain (iron)Magic metal Magic staff. (Cf. D1277.)Magic tube Magic ball Magic fishhook Magic bridge Magic cigar Magic grinding-stone Magic mill Magic sphere Magic book Magic card Magic statue (doll)Magic fire Magic circle

Travels with

Churchyard mould gives clairvoyance. Placed in pocket in order to see witches. (Cf. D1278, G250.)Reindeer hose from corpse protect women. (Cf. D1062, D1278.)Noose used by suicide as protection from accident. (Cf. D1278.)Hangman's noose gives luck in gambling. (Cf. D1278.)Fragments of gibbet as cure. (Cf. D1278.)Ghoulish magic object cures disease. (Cf. D1278.)Hangman's noose cures scrofula. (Cf. D1278.)Murdered man's head will cause earth to burn up or sea to boil: must be carried about. (Cf. D1278.)Exorcism by means of ghoulish charm. (Cf. D1278.)

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