μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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.

  • EnglandBaughman
  • IcelandicBoberg
  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
  • general *Kittredge Witchcraft 224f., 531f. nn. 103–114
Within the index

Filed under Murderous witch.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Witch's cat as sucker of bloodWitch sucks blood from woman's or child's breastsWitches suck blood from the navel of a child without anyone knowing it
Filed beside it
Lamia. Witch who eats childrenWitch eats person's entrails (heart)Witch in animal form killsWitch kills with aid of witch-ball (hair rolled in beeswax). The ball is sometimes found in the mouth of dead victimsWitch takes out man's liver

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