Soul leaves body as small point of light

Motif

Soul leaves body as small point of light.

The dead. · The soul. · Soul leaves or enters the body. · view the constellation · filed as E722.1.3

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

EnglandBaughman.

Within the index

Filed under Form of soul as it leaves body at death.

Filed beside it

Soul as black or white spirit over coffin. Black if condemned. Can be seen by peeping between horse's ears Soul as black or white entity. Black if condemned Soul leaves the body in form of bird. (Cf. E732.)

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