μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

  • Irish myth*Cross.
Within the index

Filed under 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.

Travels with
Apple (or ball) containing man's soul can be split only by man's own sword. (Cf. D981.1.)Reincarnation as fish. (Cf. D170, E713.1.)

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