Soul in animal form. (Cf. E721.1.2.4, E722.1.4, E734.2.)

Motif

Soul in animal form. (Cf. E721.1.2.4, E722.1.4, E734.2.)

The dead. · The soul. · Soul in animal form. · view the constellation · filed as E730

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Scholars’ trail — 7references

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.

EnglandBaughman
Icelandic*MacCulloch Eddic 233
SiberianHolmberg Siberian 473
N. Am. IndianHultkrantz 266f., 496.
general Bugiel RTP XVII 602
general Tobler 19
general Montenegrin: Máchal 228

Within the index

8 finer motifs beneath it

Souls of animals Soul in form of mammal Soul in form of bird. (Cf. G251.1.1.)Soul in form of reptile Soul in form of insect Soul in form of fish Soul in form of amphibian Soul in form of a mythical animal

Travels with

Soul of sleeper prevented from returning to his body when soul as bee leaves body and enters hole in wall beside which he is sleeping. (Cf. E734.2.)Soul leaves the body in form of bird. (Cf. E732.)Soul in form of bee

Carried in tale types

Dream of Treasure Bought · ATU 1645A1 recorded variant

wander