Soul in form of bee — Mythoi

Motif

Soul in form of bee.

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

Filed across the traditions

Siberian Holmberg Siberian 473
Japanese Ikeda.
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 (Thompson’s cf.)

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 808A 1 recorded variant

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