Soul in egg.
The dead. · The soul. · External soul. · view the constellation · filed as E711.1
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- ReferenceThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged), Chapter LXVILXVI. The External Soul in Folk-Tales
- IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 3, Section CCCXIII
- Ancient EgyptianEgyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri, SETNA AND THE MAGIC BOOKSETNA AND THE MAGIC BOOK
- Hermetic / AlchemicalThrice-Greatest Hermes, Volume I: Prolegomena, Chapter III: Thoth the Master of Wisdom
- Hermetic / AlchemicalThe Hermetic Museum, Restored and Enlarged, Tract 9: A Very Brief Tract (The Book of Alze)
Scholars’ trail — 9references
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. "oeuf"
- Missouri FrenchCarrière
- ScotchCampbell Tales I 1ff.
- Cape Verde IslandsParsons MAFLS XV (1) 355, 217 No. 73
- IndiaThompson-Balys.
- general *Type 302
- general *BP III 439
- general Krappe in Penzer Ocean of Story VIII 107
- general *Fb "hjærte" I 631a, "liv" II 438b, "æg" III 1141b. Icelandic: *Boberg
Within the index
Filed under Soul kept in object. (Cf. E765.)
1 finer motif beneath it
Filed beside it
Carried in tale types
- The Ogre's (Devil's) Heart in the Egg · ATU 3026 recorded variants