μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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.

  • Irish mythCross.
Within the index

Filed under Curses on persons.

5 finer motifs beneath it
Curse: man (poet) to kiss a leperCurse: hero not to be able to stand the sight of bloodGirl bewitched so that no man will remain faithful to herCurse: hero to remain as dead till the curser diesDying father condemns weak son to be servant of his brothers
Filed beside it
Curse: bodily injuryCurse: 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: 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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