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 — Mythoi

Motif

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.

The dead. · The soul. · External soul. · view the constellation · filed as E713

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross
India *Thompson-Balys.
general *BP III 439
general MacCulloch Childhood 134
general Penzer I 131

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.

1 finer motif beneath it

Soul hidden in apple (ball) in a salmon which appears every seven years in certain fountain. (Cf. D1651.10.)

Filed beside it

Ferocious animal guardian of separable soul of ogress External soul avenges murder Soul kept in object. (Cf. E765.) Hidden soul (life) 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 302 6 recorded variants

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