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

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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

Scholars’ trail — 7references

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.

SwissJegerlehner Oberwallis 313 No. 84
LithuanianBalys Ghosts
SlavicMáchal 229ff.
North CarolinaBrown 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

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

wander