Shooting star signifies that someone is dying. One star for each person. At his death it falls

Motif

Shooting star signifies that someone is dying. One star for each person. At his death it falls.

The dead. · The soul. · Other forms of the soul. · view the constellation · filed as E741.1.1

Scholars’ trail — 6references

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.

SlavicMáchal 273
IndiaThompson-Balys.
general *BP III 235
general *G. Bellucci Le stelle cadenti e le lore leggende (Perugia, 1895)
general *Handwb. d. Abergl. IX n. 770f.
general Fb "lys" II 483a, "stjerne" III 577b. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3906

Within the index

Filed under Soul in form of star. (Cf. V515.1.2.)

2 finer motifs beneath it

New star for each birth. A star in the sky for each person Star as sign of birth of hero

Filed beside it

Shooting star signifies a birth. Stars are the dead. When they fall they are being reborn. At death they are replaced in the sky

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