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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

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • Jewish Neuman
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • Persian Carnoy 336
  • N. Am. Indian Thompson 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
Filed beside it
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
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Poisonous white hair in eyebrow that causes death to the first person who sees it each day

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