Marriage of person to animal – miscellaneous — Mythoi

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Marriage of person to animal – miscellaneous.

Animals. · Marriage of person to animal. · Marriage of person to animal – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as B690

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Depth CommentaryTotem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics, Chapter IV
Greco-RomanThe Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK II, ch. V
ReferenceThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged), Chapter XIIXII. The Sacred Marriage

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1 finer motif beneath it

Relatives kill animal-husband but wife throws herself into pyre