μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic *Boberg
  • Spanish Exempla Keller
  • Chinese Graham
  • 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-sickness Magic pestilence Magic 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 animal Magic sickness because of Evil Eye. (Cf. D2071.) Magic sickness from curse Magic sickness from wounding sick person Magic sickness from bit of weapon left in head Magic sickness by making fruit plant dry and shrivel
Filed beside it
Magic murder. (Cf. D1402.) Maiming by magic Magic discomfort Magic insanity. (Cf. D2161.3.8.) Elfshot. (F360.) Magic shooting of small objects into a person's (or animal's) body Death or bodily injury by magic – miscellaneous
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Magic weakness Pestilence 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 magic Adultery 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 punishment Pursuit by rolling object

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