Soul as light.
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Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 25
- Hermetic / Alchemical The Hermetic Museum, Restored and Enlarged , Tract 7: The Glory of the World, or Table of Paradise
- Literary Crystallization Masnavi i Ma'navi: The Spiritual Couplets (abridged) , Book 1, Story 3
- Literary Crystallization Masnavi i Ma'navi: The Spiritual Couplets (abridged) , Book 2, Story 3
- Depth Commentary Primitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom , Chapter XII
Filed across the traditions
- Icelandic *Boberg
- Irish Plummer cxxxviii, Cross, Beal XXI 315, O'Suilleabhain 41
- Breton Sébillot Incidents s. v. "vie"
- French Canadian Barbeau JAFL XXIX 24
- Spanish Boggs FFC XC 82 No. 708A*
- Jewish Neuman
- Eskimo (Greenland) Rasmussen III 48
- N. Am. Indian *Hultkrantz 260ff.
- Africa (Fang) Trilles 133.
- general *Type 332
- general Fb "sjæl" III 214b, "lys" II 482a
- general BP I 377ff., *388
Within the index
Filed under Other forms of the soul.
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