Soul in egg.
The dead. · The soul. · External soul. · view the constellation · filed as E711.1
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter LXVI LXVI. The External Soul in Folk-Tales
- Indic The Mahābhārata , Book 3, Section CCCXIII
- Ancient Egyptian Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri , SETNA AND THE MAGIC BOOK SETNA AND THE MAGIC BOOK
- Hermetic / Alchemical Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Volume I: Prolegomena , Chapter III: Thoth the Master of Wisdom
- Hermetic / Alchemical The Hermetic Museum, Restored and Enlarged , Tract 9: A Very Brief Tract (The Book of Alze)
Filed across the traditions
- Breton Sébillot Incidents s. v. "oeuf"
- Missouri French Carrière
- Scotch Campbell Tales I 1ff.
- Cape Verde Islands Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 355, 217 No. 73
- India Thompson-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 302 6 recorded variants
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