Ferocious animal guardian of separable soul of ogress

Motif

Ferocious animal guardian of separable soul of ogress.

The dead. · The soul. · External soul. · view the constellation · filed as E710.1

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

IndiaThompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under External soul. A person (often a giant or ogre) keeps his soul or life separate from the rest of his body.

Filed beside it

External soul avenges murder Soul kept in object. (Cf. E765.)Hidden soul (life)Soul hidden in a series of coverings. This motif is combined with several others. Usually the soul will be hidden in an egg, in a duck, in a well, in a church, or a similar series Soul (or life) kept in special part of body Separable soul kept in animal Multiple separable souls: ogre's separable spirits live in a tree (plant), fish, honey bee

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