Multiple separable souls: ogre's separable spirits live in a tree (plant), fish, honey bee — Mythoi

Motif

Multiple separable souls: ogre's separable spirits live in a tree (plant), fish, honey bee.

The dead. · The soul. · External soul. · view the constellation · filed as E718

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

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.

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 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

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