Soul of sleeper prevented from returning when it is captured in animal form

Motif

Soul of sleeper prevented from returning when it is captured in animal form.

The dead. · The soul. · Soul leaves or enters the body. · view the constellation · filed as E721.1.2.1

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Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter XVIII XVIII. The Perils of the Soul

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general Frazer Golden Bough III 38.

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Filed under Soul of sleeper prevented from returning to his body.

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Soul of sleeper prevented from returning by moving the sleeper's body. (Cf E431.7.2.1.) Soul of sleeper prevented from returning by burning the body Soul of sleeper prevented from returning to his body when soul as bee leaves body and enters hole in wall beside which he is sleeping. (Cf. E734.2.) Frightened soul cannot return to body

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