Soul of sleeper prevented from returning to his body

Motif

Soul of sleeper prevented from returning to his body.

The dead. · The soul. · Soul leaves or enters the body. · view the constellation · filed as E721.1.2

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

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

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.

IndiaThompson-Balys
Eskimo (Greenland)Rasmussen II 320.
general Frazer Golden Bough III 38

Within the index

Filed under Soul wanders from body in sleep. Dreams explained as experiences of the soul on these wanderings.

5 finer motifs beneath it

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

Filed beside it

Sleeper not to be awakened, since soul is absent

wander