Soul as will-o-the-wisp. Appears as a ball or fire or a figure in a fiery garment — Mythoi

Motif

Soul as will-o-the-wisp. Appears as a ball or fire or a figure in a fiery garment.

The dead. · The soul. · Other forms of the soul. · view the constellation · filed as E742.2

Filed across the traditions

Swiss Jegerlehner Oberwallis 313 No. 84
Lithuanian Balys Ghosts
Slavic Máchal 229ff.
North Carolina Brown Collection I 677.
general Tobler 82–86 passim
general Meyer Germanische 63
general Fb "ild" II 11b

Within the index

Filed under Soul as light.

Filed beside it

Soul as taper (candle) Souls of dead as Aurora Borealis

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Witch in form of ball of fire. (Cf. F491, E742.2.)

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