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Miasma (Greek mythology) : ウィキペディア英語版 | Miasma (Greek mythology)
In Greek mythology, a miasma is "a contagious power ... that has an independent life of its own. Until purged by the sacrificial death of the wrongdoer, society would be chronically infected by catastrophe."〔Armstrong, (p. 64–65 ).〕 An example is Atreus who invited his brother Thyestes to a delicious stew containing the bodies of his own sons. A miasma contaminated the entire family of Atreus, where one violent crime led to another, providing fodder for many of the Greek heroic tales. However, attempts to cleanse a city or a society from miasma may have the opposite effect, that of reinforcing the miasma. == See also ==
* Miasma theory * Panacea
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