Serpent's life in its gold crown

Motif

Serpent's life in its gold crown.

The dead. · The soul. · External soul. · view the constellation · filed as E714.2

Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

ChineseGraham.
general Type 672B
general *BP II 463

Within the index

Filed under Soul (or life) kept in special part of body.

Filed beside it

Soul (life) in the blood Soul in head Soul (life) in the heart Soul (life) in the liver Soul (life) in the breath Soul (life) in left hand Monster with life in his neck. (One vulnerable place.)Giant's soul in a mole in the hollow of his palm Ogre's soul in "pale spot" below his right ear. (Cf. Z311.2.)Life (soul) in entrails Soul in hair Soul fastened to spine

Carried in tale types

The Serpent's Crown · ATU 6722 recorded variants

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