Soul (life) in the breath

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Soul (life) in the breath.

The dead. · The soul. · External soul. · view the constellation · filed as E714.6

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 10, Section 9
IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 13, Section CXLIX
Depth CommentaryPrimitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom, Chapter XIV
Depth CommentaryThe Interpretation of Dreams, Chapter VI

Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

FinnishHolmberg Finno-Ugric 7
JewishNeuman
IndiaThompson-Balys
N. Am. Indian*Hultkrantz 179–208.

Within the index

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

Filed beside it

Soul (life) in the blood Serpent's life in its gold crown Soul in head Soul (life) in the heart Soul (life) in the liver 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

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