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

Motif

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

The dead. · The soul. · Other forms of the soul. · view the constellation · filed as E741.1.2

Scholars’ trail — 3references

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 395
general *Hdwb. d. Abergl. IX N. 770f.
general N. Am. Indian (Mandan): Alexander N. Am. 96.

Within the index

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

Filed beside it

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

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