Phantoms — Mythoi

Motif

Phantoms.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Remarkable persons. · Other extraordinary human beings. · view the constellation · filed as F585

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross
Spanish Boggs FFC XC 61 No. 445B.

Within the index

Filed under Other extraordinary human beings.

5 finer motifs beneath it

Fairy (god) as phantom Fatal enticements of phantom women Magic phantom army. Created out of puffballs and withered leaves Phantom women cause weakness Treasure struck from hand of phantom

Filed beside it

Extremely old person Dancers upon whom icicles hang Negro so black that he makes whole garden somber Luminous person Remarkable beauty. (Cf. F574.1.) Extraordinary ugliness. (Cf. A2402.) Persons identical in appearance. (Cf. F1072.) [First Edition: F581. Woman who drives those who see her mad. (Inadvertant duplication of F1041.8.1.)] Poison damsel. Woman nourished on poison is fatal to her husbands. Sometimes the poisoning is from fatal look or breath, sometimes from intercourse Hero has lain motionless since birth Person remarkably light in weight Person who never laughs Man's ferocious glance kills (causes swooning) Person's extraordinary body temperature. (Cf. F546.5) Man whose entrails are visible when he laughs Man's body exudes sweet scent

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