μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Soul enters body and animates it.

The dead. · The soul. · Soul leaves or enters the body. · view the constellation · filed as E726

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“The Nunnery on Fire Seeing all these gods arrive to help the novice, the Superior, I Yu, held consultation with the choir-mistress, saying: "We assigned to the Princess the burdensome work of the kitchen because she refused to return to the world; but since she has entered on her duties the gods of the eight caves of Heaven have come to offer her fruit, Ch'ieh Lan sweeps the kitchen, the dragon has dug a well, the God of the Hearth and…”

— Myths & Legends of China, Chapter X · served from our shelf

On our shelf — the index’s citations, resolved to served chapters
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 6references

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Filed under Soul leaves or enters the body.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Soul received at birthSoul of unborn son comes out of mother's mouth (in form of stone), is kept by her, and later is given to son. (Cf. E711.7.)Soul reunited with body
Filed beside it
Souls of human beings seen in dreamSoul journeys from the bodySoul leaves body at deathWraiths of persons separate from bodySoul leaves one body and enters anotherRelation of body to soulEvil spirit possesses person
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Blind god. HödhrGoddess of mercyAnimal as servant to manAnimal as domestic servantHelpful tigerTransformation: man to tigerTransformation: instruments of torture to lotus flowersMagic object acquired as reward for religious austeritiesMagic peachMagic hairpinMagic waters and medicinesMagic salve (ointment)

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