μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 4references

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
  • Hebrew2 Kings 2:24, Neuman
  • IcelandicBoberg
  • EskimoKroeber JAFL XII 173, Turner RBAE XI 262.
Within the index

Filed under Means employed in magic murder.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Death in sin (damnation) by cursing. (Cf. E752.)Curse of clergy causes man to die of wound
Filed beside it
Death-giving glance. (Cf. F555.7.)Murder by sympathetic magic. An object or an animal is abused or destroyed to bring about the death of a personMurder by pointing. (Cf. D2069.1.1.)Hunter 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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