μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

The soul as a guardian spirit.

The dead. · The soul. · Other forms of the soul. · view the constellation · filed as E748

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic *Boberg.
  • general Hilda R. Ellis The Road to Hell, A Study of the Conception of the Dead in Old Norse Literature (Cambridge [Eng.], 1943) 127ff.
Within the index

Filed under Other forms of the soul.

Filed beside it
Soul in form of heavenly body Soul as light Soul as shadow Soul as weather phenomenon Soul as object. (Cf. E765.) Soul as mannikin (child)

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