Soul enters body and animates it — Mythoi

Motif

Soul enters body and animates it.

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

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Chinese Myths & Legends of China , Chapter X

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross
Jewish *Neuman
India Thompson-Balys
Chinese Werner 266 → on our shelf: Myths & Legends of China, Chapter X
N. Am. Indian *Hultkrantz 149–179.
general *Chauvin V 287 No. 171

Within the index

Filed under Soul leaves or enters the body.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Soul received at birth Soul 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 dream Soul journeys from the body Soul leaves body at death Wraiths of persons separate from body Soul leaves one body and enters another Relation of body to soul Evil spirit possesses person

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Blind god. Hödhr Goddess of mercy Animal as servant to man Animal as domestic servant Helpful tiger Transformation: man to tiger Transformation: instruments of torture to lotus flowers Magic object acquired as reward for religious austerities Magic peach Magic hairpin Magic waters and medicines Magic salve (ointment)

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