Curse: failure in all undertakings — Mythoi

Motif

Curse: failure in all undertakings.

Ordaining the future. · Curses. · Curses on persons. · view the constellation · filed as M441

Filed across the traditions

India *Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Curses on persons.

1 finer motif beneath it

Curse: man's sword will fail in danger

Filed beside it

Curse: bodily injury 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: 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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