μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • Estonian Loorits Grundzüge I 182–190, 251–266, 491–506
  • German Meyer Germanen 68ff.
  • Jewish Neuman
  • N. Am. Indian (Iroquois) Hewitt The Iroquoian Concept of the Soul (JAFL VIII 107).
  • general **Tobler
  • general **Feilberg Sjæletro (København, 1914)
  • general Åke Hultkrantz Conceptions of the Soul among the North American Indians (Stockholm, 1953)
  • general Hilda R. Ellis The Road to Hell, A Study in the Conception of the Dead in Old Norse Literature (London, 1943) 170ff. Greek: Waser Über die äussere Erscheinung der Seele in den Vorstellungen der Völker, zumal der alten Griechen (Archiv für Religionswissenschaft XVI [1914] 336)
  • general Skandinavian: *K. S. Kramer Die Dingbeseelung in der germanischen Überlieferung (München, 1939)
Within the index
8 finer motifs beneath it
Names given the soul Soul of object Composition of the soul Creation of souls Soul forgets everything at birth Abode of unborn souls Person with more than one soul Soul sustained on pleasant odors
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Fairies as souls of departed. (Cf. E700.) Murder causes dwarf to lose his soul. (Cf. E700.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Bear paramour. (Cf. B601.1., B631, B635.) Vital bodily members. They possess life independent of the rest of the body. (Cf. F1096.) Achilles heel. Invulnerability except in one spot

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