Curse: restlessness. (Cf. K1837.4.)

Motif

Curse: restlessness. (Cf. K1837.4.)

Ordaining the future. · Curses. · Curses on persons. · view the constellation · filed as M455

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 myth*Cross
IcelandicLagerholm lxi–ii.

Within the index

Filed under Curses on persons.

4 finer motifs beneath it

Hero cursed to restlessness (except on boat or in tent), till he sees girl. (Cf. D1900.)Curse: not to be able to love the same woman more than twelve months Thrall cursed to sit on chest and yell and never have rest Curse: couple to wander until new seat of race is pointed out

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: 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

Travels with

Girl in man's clothes avenges her father

wander