Death by cursing

Motif

Death by cursing.

Magic. · Magic powers and manifestations. · Manifestations of magic power. · Destructive magic powers. · Death or bodily injury by magic. · view the constellation · filed as D2061.2.4

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross
Hebrew 2 Kings 2:24, Neuman
Icelandic Boberg
Eskimo Kroeber 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 person Murder 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 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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