μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Person killed by spike magically made to appear on chair.

Magic. · Magic powers and manifestations. · Manifestations of magic power. · Destructive magic powers. · Death or bodily injury by magic. · view the constellation · filed as D2061.2.6

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross.
Within the index

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 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.) 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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