μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

External soul avenges murder.

The dead. · The soul. · External soul. · view the constellation · filed as E710.2

Filed across the traditions
  • Eskimo (Greenland) Rasmussen III 145.
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
Ferocious animal guardian of separable soul of ogress 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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