Death-giving glance. (Cf. F555.7.)

Motif

Death-giving glance. (Cf. F555.7.)

Magic. · Magic powers and manifestations. · Manifestations of magic power. · Destructive magic powers. · Death or bodily injury by magic. · view the constellation · filed as D2061.2.1

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Scholars’ trail — 12references

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.

Irish myth*Cross
JewishNeuman
IndiaThompson-Balys
PersianCarnoy 336
N. Am. IndianThompson Tales 344 n. 242, (Calif): Gayton and Newman 92
Eskimo (Mackenzie Area)Jenness 65.
general Hartland Perseus III 59f.
general *Krappe Balor 1ff.
general Penzer II 298, IV 232, VIII 75 n. 1
general Chauvin V 16 n. 2, 293
general Gaster Rabbis 225 No. 203. Greek: Fox 35 (Gorgon)
general England, Wales, U.S.: *Baughman

Within the index

Filed under Means employed in magic murder.

1 finer motif beneath it

Evil eye sets bird on fire

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Murder by sympathetic magic. An object or an animal is abused or destroyed to bring about the death of a person Murder by pointing. (Cf. D2069.1.1.)Death by cursing Hunter reduced to ashes by power of heroine's chastity. (Cf. D2061.1.1.)Person killed by spike magically made to appear on chair Murder by showing man caul with which he was born Horse made to hang himself on gate by magic Breathing on enemy drives him onto knife

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Poisonous white hair in eyebrow that causes death to the first person who sees it each day

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