Soul as object. (Cf. E765.) — Mythoi

Motif

Soul as object. (Cf. E765.)

The dead. · The soul. · Other forms of the soul. · view the constellation · filed as E745

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter XLVI XLVI. The Corn-Mother in Many Lands
Indic The Mahābhārata , Book 3, Section CXLVIII
Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 9

Filed across the traditions

N. Am. Indian Hultkrantz 268
Eskimo (Kodiak) Golder JAFL XXII 11, (Greenland): Rasmussen 1 136.

Within the index

Filed under Other forms of the soul.

6 finer motifs beneath it

Soul as feather Soul as needle Soul as straw Soul as flower Soul as fruit Soul as ghi (clarified butter)

Filed beside it

Soul in form of heavenly body Soul as light Soul as shadow Soul as weather phenomenon Soul as mannikin (child) The soul as a guardian spirit

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Life dependent on external object or event. Person's life is mystically connected with something else and comes to an end when that thing is destroyed

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