Soul in form of bee

Motif

Soul in form of bee.

The dead. · The soul. · Soul in animal form. · view the constellation · filed as E734.2

Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

SiberianHolmberg Siberian 473
JapaneseIkeda.
general Type 808**
general Hdwb. d. Abergl. IV 468
general Tobler 37

Within the index

Filed under Soul in form of insect.

Filed beside it

Soul in form of butterfly Soul in form of spider. [Note: In folk thought, an insect.]Soul in form of wasp Soul in form of cricket Soul in form of beetle Soul in form of fly Soul in form of grasshopper

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

Carried in tale types

The Death of the Good and of the Bad Man · ATU 808A1 recorded variant

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