μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

  • JewishNeuman
  • HinduPenzer III 38, VI 24 n., 133, IX 27 n. 1
  • N. Am. Indian (Blackfoot)Wissler and Duvall PaAM II 128, (Maliseet): Mechling GSCan IV 100 No. 29, (Arapaho): Dorsey and Kroeber FM V 271 No. 120, (Pawnee): Dorsey CI LIX 160 No. 43, (Micmac): Parsons JAFL XXXVIII 78 No. 11, Rand 370 No. 71, (Seneca): Curtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 186 No. 35, 457 No. 94, 659 No. 127.
  • general *Frazer Golden Bough XII 481 s. v. "Sympathetic magic"
  • general *Andree Ethnographische 8ff. Irish myth: *Cross
Within the index

Filed under Means of producing magic power.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Magic results obtained by imitating desired actionCuring wound by treating object which caused woundMagic result from loosing knots. (Cf. D2142.0.2.)
Filed beside it
Magic results produced by wishingMagic results produced by commandMagic results produced by religious ceremony. (Cf. G224.5, V70.)Magic results from laughingMagic results from speakingMagic results from lickingMagic results from spittingMagic results from power of thoughtMagic results from contact with earthMagic results from singing. (Cf. D1275, D1275.3.)Reverse magic. Magic results obtained by imitating reverse of desired resultsMagic results from breathing. (Cf. D1557.)Magic telepathy. Influence at a distanceMagic power at cross-roadsMagic results from burningMagic results from bathing. (Cf. D562, D925, D2161.4.14.)
Travels with
Hail produced by whistling tune. (Cf. D1275.1, D1782.)Exorcism by use of sympathetic magic. (Cf. D1782, D2063.1.1.)

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