μῦθοι Mythoi
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

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Filed across the traditions
  • India Thompson-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

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