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

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

Filed across the traditions

Slavic Máchal 273
India Thompson-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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