μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Hunter reduced to ashes by power of heroine's chastity. (Cf. D2061.1.1.)

Magic. · Magic powers and manifestations. · Manifestations of magic power. · Destructive magic powers. · Death or bodily injury by magic. · view the constellation · filed as D2061.2.5

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

  • general Penzer IV 244.
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Filed under Means employed in magic murder.

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.)Death by cursingPerson 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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Person magically reduced to ashes. (Cf. D1896.)

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