Soul leaves one body and enters another — Mythoi

Motif

Soul leaves one body and enters another.

The dead. · The soul. · Soul leaves or enters the body. · view the constellation · filed as E725

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Filed across the traditions

Slavic Máchal 228
India *Thompson-Balys
N. Am. Indian *Hultkrantz 438–440.
general *L. Bloomfield Proc. Am. Philosophical Soc. LVI 1
general Penzer I 38
general Hartland Science 227

Within the index

Filed under Soul leaves or enters the body.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Soul leaves man's body and enters animal's Ghost possesses girl and she speaks in dialect unknown to her

Filed beside it

Souls of human beings seen in dream Soul journeys from the body Soul leaves body at death Wraiths of persons separate from body Soul enters body and animates it Relation of body to soul Evil spirit possesses person

Carried in tale types

The King Transfers his Soul to a Parrot · ATU 678 1 recorded variant

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