Soul in form of serpent.
The dead. · The soul. · Soul in animal form. · view the constellation · filed as E733.1
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
- Japanese Ikeda
- Oceanic Dixon 119
- Africa Werner African 193.
- general Tobler 22ff., 74
- general Fb "lindorm" II 433b
- general Meyer Germanische (1891) 63f.
- general Lévy-Bruhl L'âme primitive 369ff.
- general Kruyt 177ff.
- general Schreuer Zs. f. vgl. Rechtsgeschichte XXXIII (1916) 406f. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 217, Boberg
Within the index
Filed under Soul in form of reptile.
Carried in tale types
- The Punishments of Men · ATU 840 1 recorded variant
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