Witches cause disease or death of animals

Motif

Witches cause disease or death of animals.

Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Witches. · Evil deeds of witches. · view the constellation · filed as G265.4

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

IcelandicMacCulloch Eddic 302.

Within the index

Filed under Witch abuses property.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Witch punishes owner for injury or slight by killing his animals. (Cf. G269.10.)Witch causes death of animals Witch causes illness of animals. (Cf. D2066)

Filed beside it

Witch scatters tools at night Witch drowns foal Witch rides horse at night Witch maims animals Witch causes animals to behave unnaturally Witch controls actions of animals. (Cf. D2072.0.2, D2083.2.)Witch bewitches objects. (Cf. D2072, D2081, D2087.1, D2071.0.2.)Witches ruin crop. (Cf. G283.)Witches bewitch trees

Travels with

Witch punishes person who incurs her ill will. (Cf. G265.4.)

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