Persons bring bad luck — Mythoi

Motif

Persons bring bad luck.

Chance and fate. · The ways of luck and fate. · Nature of luck and fate. · Changing of luck or fate. · view the constellation · filed as N134.1

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Literary Crystallization Faust: A Tragedy , First Part, Scene 22 (Walpurgis-Night's Dream)
Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter XLV XLV. The Corn-Mother and the Corn-Maiden in Northern Europe
Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter XX XX. Tabooed Persons
Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter XXV XXV. Temporary Kings

Filed across the traditions

Jewish *Neuman.

Within the index

Filed under Persons effect change of luck.

5 finer motifs beneath it

Unlucky to have man in house while cloth is being dyed Wife brings bad luck to the husband's family Persons lose luck as punishment Spirit of adversity brings bad luck to house Passenger brings bad luck to ship. Cast overboard. Jonah. (Cf. S264.1.)

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