Magic insanity. (Cf. D2161.3.8.)

Motif

Magic insanity. (Cf. D2161.3.8.)

Magic. · Magic powers and manifestations. · Manifestations of magic power. · Destructive magic powers. · Death or bodily injury by magic. · view the constellation · filed as D2065

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Middle EasternThe Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Chapter 17

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.

Irish myth*Cross
LithuanianBalys Index 3512
Eskimo (Greenland)Rink 167, 259, 368, 445.
general *Kittredge Witchcraft 30, *382 n. 51, 124ff., 449f. nn. 1–23 passim

Within the index

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

7 finer motifs beneath it

Madness from demonic possession Insanity from seeing strange sight Druids bereave men of senses. (Cf. P427.)Insanity of princess dependent on height of fire. (Cf. D2064.2.)Insanity because of Evil Eye. (Cf. D2071.)Person abducted by Echo crazed and dumb Insanity from curse

Filed beside it

Magic murder. (Cf. D1402.)Maiming by magic Magic discomfort Magic sickness. (Cf. D1837.)Elfshot. (F360.) Magic shooting of small objects into a person's (or animal's) body Death or bodily injury by magic – miscellaneous

Travels with

Insanity magically cured. (Cf. D2065.)Meeting ghost causes person to go mad. (Cf. D2065.)Madness as punishment. (Cf. D2065.)

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