Motif
illness transferred through bodily tokens
illness_transferred_through_bodily_tokens
A motif of the Sacred Law and Social Order family, within the sub-family Apotropaic Protection and Sympathetic Magic. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
comparative
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS; lines 3546-3619 confidence: high
Ancient and Roman examples include transferring scorpion pain to an ass, transferring fever to a neighbour through nail parings and wax, and Greek concern over wax figures at doors, tombstones, or crossroads.
Nail parings and hair are used to move fever, gout, or cough from a sufferer to a neighbour, oak, bush, birds, or dog.
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