μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 14references

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
  • JewishNeuman
  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
  • general *Krappe Balor 9ff.
  • general *Chauvin V 161 No. 84, VIII 143 No. 144 n. 1
  • general *Fb "öje" III 1167ab, 1168a
  • general *Hdwb. d. Abergl. I 686
  • general Elworthy The Evil Eye (London, 1895)
  • general Jahn Über den Aberglauben des bösen Blicks bei den Alten
  • general Pitre Le jettatura ed il mal occhio in Sicilia (Kolozsvár, 1884)
  • general Seligman Der böse Blick und Verwandtes (Berlin, 1910)
  • general Maclagen, R. C. The Evil Eye in the Western Highlands (London, 1902)
  • general Penzer II 298
  • general *Hertz Abhandlungen 181ff. Irish myth: *Cross
Within the index

Filed under Bewitching. (Cf. D5, G200.)

5 finer motifs beneath it
Evil eye covered with seven veilsEvil eye from exposure to magic concoctionMan with power of evil eye cannot look at any living thing before breaking fast in the morning without causing it to wither and dieAverting Evil EyePerson kills with Evil Eye
Filed beside it
Magic hair-ball used for bewitching. (Cf. D991.3, D1274.1.)Magic paralysis. Person or thing rendered helpless. (Cf. D1410.)Attracting by magicSaint magically causes druids to bless instead of curseImprisoning by magicOther forms of bewitching
Travels with
Magic sickness because of Evil Eye. (Cf. D2071.)Insanity because of Evil Eye. (Cf. D2071.)Magic paralysis by Evil Eye. (Cf. D2071.)

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