μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Murder by sympathetic magic. An object or an animal is abused or destroyed to bring about the death of a person.

Magic. · Magic powers and manifestations. · Manifestations of magic power. · Destructive magic powers. · Death or bodily injury by magic. · view the constellation · filed as D2061.2.2

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Scholars’ trail — 6references

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 mythCross
  • general *Cox Cinderella 491
  • general Herbert III 200
  • general Oesterley No. 102
  • general *Kittredge Witchcraft 73ff., 411ff. nn. 1–171
  • general Heptameron No. 1.
Within the index

Filed under Means employed in magic murder.

8 finer motifs beneath it
Person whose shadow is pierced by spear falls deadSpell chanted over person's shadow brings deathMurder by abuse or destruction of imageBody of victim abusedMurder by abuse of clothing of victimCandle burned causes victim to waste awayAnimals abused or destroyed to cause death of personMiscellaneous objects abused to cause death
Filed beside it
Death-giving glance. (Cf. F555.7.)Murder by pointing. (Cf. D2069.1.1.)Death by cursingHunter reduced to ashes by power of heroine's chastity. (Cf. D2061.1.1.)Person killed by spike magically made to appear on chairMurder by showing man caul with which he was bornHorse made to hang himself on gate by magicBreathing on enemy drives him onto knife

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