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Motif

Means employed in magic murder.

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

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Filed under Magic murder. (Cf. D1402.)

9 finer motifs beneath 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 Breathing on enemy drives him onto knife
Filed beside it
Kinds of death produced by magic. (Cf. D1896.)

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