Hidden soul (life) — Mythoi

Motif

Hidden soul (life).

The dead. · The soul. · External soul. · view the constellation · filed as E712

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Hermetic / AlchemicalThe Hermetic Museum, Restored and Enlarged, Tract 20: The Three Treatises of Philalethes, III: The Fount of Chemical Truth
Depth CommentaryThe Interpretation of Dreams, Chapter I
Literary CrystallizationMasnavi i Ma'navi: The Spiritual Couplets (abridged), Book 6, Story 9

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.

7 finer motifs beneath it

Soul hidden in tree Soul hidden in safe Soul hidden in urn Soul hidden in box Soul hidden in pillar Soul hidden in fish basket Soul hidden in water bottle

Filed beside it

Ferocious animal guardian of separable soul of ogress External soul avenges murder Soul kept in object. (Cf. E765.)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