The constellation
E714 Soul (or life) kept in special part of body
A constellation is one motif’s neighborhood in the record — the story-shapes filed around it, the tale types that carry it, and the texts where it is witnessed, every line a receipted link. Click a motif to travel. Click a text to read it. The entry · wander
● motif
● tale type
● on the shelf
● attested
The same sky, in words
filed under
beneath it
- Soul (life) in the blood · E714.1 entry
- Serpent's life in its gold crown · E714.2 entry
- Soul in head · E714.3 entry
- Soul (life) in the heart · E714.4 entry
- Soul (life) in the liver · E714.5 entry
- Soul (life) in the breath · E714.6 entry
- Soul (life) in left hand · E714.7 entry
- Monster with life in his neck. (One vulnerable place.) · E714.8 entry
- Giant's soul in a mole in the hollow of his palm · E714.9 entry
- Ogre's soul in "pale spot" below his right ear. (Cf. Z311.2.) · E714.10 entry
- Life (soul) in entrails · E714.11 entry
- Soul in hair · E714.12 entry
- Soul fastened to spine · E714.13 entry
keeps company
- Person with wings on feet (head) · F522.1 entry
- Labyrinth. Series of rooms so confusing that one cannot find the way out · F781.1 entry
- Treacherous daughter · K2214.1 entry
- Daughter pulls out father's magic life-containing hair. As soon as it is taken out he dies · K976 entry
- Child sacrificed to gain favor of gods · S263.2 entry
- Sacrifice to offended gods, who hold ship back · S263.4.1 entry
- Enchanted person. See also the entire section on transformation. No real difference seems to exist between transformation and enchantment. A bewitched or enchanted person may, however, retain his original physical form, but may be affected mentally or morally · D5 entry
- Magic hair · D991 entry
Thompson cites
- The Library (Bibliotheca) · BOOK III, ch. XV