Soul as vital principle.
The dead. · The soul. · Soul leaves or enters the body. · view the constellation · filed as E727.2
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- Depth CommentaryPrimitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom, Chapter XI
- ReferenceThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged), Chapter XXIIIXXIII. Our Debt to the Savage
- ReferenceThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged), Chapter XVIIIXVIII. The Perils of the Soul
- IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 3, Section CCXII
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.
- N. Am. Indian*Hultkrantz 149–179.