Perils of the soul.
The dead. · The soul. · Perils of the soul. · view the constellation · filed as E750
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- Middle EasternThe Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Chapter 25
- Middle EasternThe Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Chapter 10
- IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 8, Section 50
- ReferenceThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged), Chapter LXVIILXVII. The External Soul in Folk-Custom
- Literary CrystallizationUlysses, 15 Circe
Scholars’ trail — 4references
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.
- Irish myth*Cross
- IndiaThompson-Balys
- N. Am. IndianHultkrantz 464–480.
- general *Frazer Golden Bough III 26ff.
Within the index
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