Spirit of plague — Mythoi

Motif

Spirit of plague.

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Hermetic / Alchemical Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Volume I: Prolegomena , Chapter IV: The Popular Theurgic Hermes-Cult in the Greek Magic Papyri
Literary Crystallization The Prophetic Books of William Blake (Sampson's Oxford Blake) , America: a Prophecy
Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter L L. Eating the God
Literary Crystallization Faust: A Tragedy , Prologue in Heaven
Indian / Hindu (Sanskrit epic) The Ramayan of Valmiki (Griffith verse translation) , Book 1, Canto 26

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross
Dutch Sinninghe FFC CXXXII 67f. Nos. 251–283
India Thompson-Balys
general N. Am. Indian (Yukon): Alexander N. Am. Myth. 78.

Within the index

Filed under Other spirits and demons.

9 finer motifs beneath it

Pestilence in animal form Pestilence in human form Pestilence in form of object Pestilence in visible form Spirits of various kinds of disease Experiences with pestilence spirit Protection against pestilence spirit Demons spread pestilence by means of "heat and fury" Sign of great plague: sky seems afire

Filed beside it

Will-o'-the-Wisp. (Jack o' Lantern.) Light seen over marshy places Death on horseback Land-spirits Stone-spirit Demon of gluttony Fire-spirits Sundry other spirits

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