μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Curse: bodily injury.

Ordaining the future. · Curses. · Curses on persons. · view the constellation · filed as M431

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross.
  • general Lagerholm 106–107
Within the index

Filed under Curses on persons.

10 finer motifs beneath it
Curse: loss of eye Curse: toads from mouth Curse: fire to burn hands and feet Curse: arm to fall off Curse: wound not to heal Wicked stepmother cursed to have fire lit under her Curse: leprosy Curse of sterility on wife of enemy Curse: head to split in seven pieces Curse: to be plagued by nightmares
Filed beside it
Curse: to be carried off by evil spirit Endless sleep given Endymion Curse: to be swallowed by a siren Curse: not to taste food from own table. Food always seized by harpies Curse: prince to fall in love with witch's daughter Curse: monstrous birth Curse: humiliation Curse: failure in all undertakings Curse: deformity Curse: privation Curse of childlessness Giant cursed: may neither heaven nor earth receive him Curse: undertaking dangerous quest Curse: to sink into the earth Curse: death Curse: insanity

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