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Motif

Magic sickness. (Cf. D1837.)

Magic. · Magic powers and manifestations. · Manifestations of magic power. · Destructive magic powers. · Death or bodily injury by magic. · view the constellation · filed as D2064

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“The people heard that the children had abundance of food of all kinds, and they all moved to them. When they arrived the children invited them, and the various companies came and ate with them. Finally they all went out again; only the children’s father now stayed with them again. But they regretted what he had done to them. So they caused the lions to jump upon their father, and he was killed.”

— Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 63 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • Spanish ExemplaKeller
  • ChineseGraham
  • Eskimo (Greenland)Rink 458, 467, Rasmussen III 67, 292.
Within the index

Filed under Death or bodily injury by magic. (Cf. C920f., D1207.1, D1400, D2089.3.)

11 finer motifs beneath it
Magic love-sickness. (Cf. D1355.)Magic heart-sicknessMagic pestilenceMagic sickness because girl has thrown away her consecrated wafer. (Cf. C55, C940.1.)Sickness of princess dependent on witch's fire. When fire is high, princess is very sick. Princess recovers when fire is put out. (Cf. D2065.4.)Sickness transferred to animalMagic sickness because of Evil Eye. (Cf. D2071.)Magic sickness from curseMagic sickness from wounding sick personMagic sickness from bit of weapon left in headMagic sickness by making fruit plant dry and shrivel
Filed beside it
Magic murder. (Cf. D1402.)Maiming by magicMagic discomfortMagic insanity. (Cf. D2161.3.8.)Elfshot. (F360.) Magic shooting of small objects into a person's (or animal's) bodyDeath or bodily injury by magic – miscellaneous
Travels with
Magic weaknessPestilence magically sent upon (domestic) animals. (Cf. D2064.)Meeting ghost causes sickness. (Cf. D2064.)Witch causes sickness. (Cf. D2064.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Snake paramour. (Cf. B604.1.)Maiming by magicAdultery punished. (Cf. Q411.0.1, Q413.2, Q414.0.2, Q416.1.1, Q418.1, Q421.0.2, Q421.0.6, Q424.2, Q428.1, Q431.8, Q432.2, Q434.1, Q451.1.5, Q451.2.4, Q451.4.8, Q451.5.1, Q451.6.1, Q451.14, Q455.2, Q456.0.1, Q457.3, Q458.0.1, Q461.3, Q466.1, Q469.1, Q473.0.2, Q473.1.1, Q473.2.1, Q478.1, Q478.2, Q478.3, Q484, Q493.1, Q499.2.1, Q537.1, Q552.3.0.3, Q555.2, Q587.)Frightful meal as punishmentPursuit by rolling object

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