Curse: to be carried off by evil spirit

Motif

Curse: to be carried off by evil spirit.

Ordaining the future. · Curses. · Curses on persons. · view the constellation · filed as M432

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.

general Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 456
general Hdwb. d. Märchens I 547a nn. 127–139.

Within the index

Filed under Curses on persons.

Filed beside it

Curse: bodily injury 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

Travels with

Wife curses wicked husband: "May devil take you!" Devil does. (Cf. M432.)

wander