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

Motif

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

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

Scholars’ trail — 20references

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.

BretonSébillot Incidents s. v. "corps", "âme"
IcelandicFripjofssaga (Wenz ed., Halle 1914) 16
French CanadianBarbeau JAFL XXIX 11
GreekGrote I 136f.
India*Thompson-Balys
PhilippineFansler MAFLS XII 178
N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 346 n. 246a, *Hultkrantz 330–341
Africa (Swahili)Steere 3ff.
general *Type 302
general *BP III 440
general *Krappe in Penzer Ocean of Story VIII 107
general *MacCulloch Childhood 118ff.
general *Chauvin V 176 No. 100, II 193 No. 12
general Fb "hjærte" IV 318b
general Mélusine XI 263
general *Penzer X 143 s. v. "External Soul"
general Clouston Tales I 347
general Köhler-Bolte I 161, 515
general Gittée RTP II 283
general Krappe Revue Archéologique (May-June 1933) 195–211. – Irish myth: *Cross

Within the index

8 finer motifs beneath it

Ferocious animal guardian of separable soul of ogress 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

Carried in tale types

The Ogre's (Devil's) Heart in the Egg · ATU 30212 recorded variants

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