Breathing on enemy drives him onto knife

Motif

Breathing on enemy drives him onto knife.

Magic. · Magic powers and manifestations. · Manifestations of magic power. · Destructive magic powers. · Death or bodily injury by magic. · view the constellation · filed as D2061.2.9

Filed across the traditions

Eskimo (Mackenzie Area) Jenness 36.

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.) 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

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