μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • Irish mythCross.
  • general Lagerholm 106–107
Within the index

Filed under Curses on persons.

10 finer motifs beneath it
Curse: loss of eyeCurse: toads from mouthCurse: fire to burn hands and feetCurse: arm to fall offCurse: wound not to healWicked stepmother cursed to have fire lit under herCurse: leprosyCurse of sterility on wife of enemyCurse: head to split in seven piecesCurse: to be plagued by nightmares
Filed beside it
Curse: to be carried off by evil spiritEndless sleep given EndymionCurse: to be swallowed by a sirenCurse: not to taste food from own table. Food always seized by harpiesCurse: prince to fall in love with witch's daughterCurse: monstrous birthCurse: humiliationCurse: failure in all undertakingsCurse: deformityCurse: privationCurse of childlessnessGiant cursed: may neither heaven nor earth receive himCurse: undertaking dangerous questCurse: to sink into the earthCurse: deathCurse: insanity

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