μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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.

  • general England, U.S.: Baughman.
Within the index

Filed under Soul leaves or enters the body.

8 finer motifs beneath it
Person sees his own wraithSeeing one's wraith a sign that person is to die shortly. (Cf. F405.4.)Wraith takes place of person unable to do duty at the necessary timeWraith does what person wishes to do but is unable to do in the fleshWraith of sweetheart stays in room where lover has died. It disappears only after her death at far distant point twenty years after death of loverAppearance of his wraith as announcement of person's death. (Cf. E723.2.)Actions of wraithAppearance of wraith as calamity omen
Filed beside it
Souls of human beings seen in dreamSoul journeys from the bodySoul leaves body at deathSoul leaves one body and enters anotherSoul enters body and animates itRelation of body to soulEvil spirit possesses person
Travels with
Dead announce own death. (Cf. E723ff.)

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