Hell-hounds accompany soul to lower world — Mythoi

Motif

Hell-hounds accompany soul to lower world.

The dead. · The soul. · Perils of the soul. · view the constellation · filed as E752.5

Cited in the index

general Wimberly 120.

Within the index

Filed under Lost souls.

Filed beside it

Soul in jeopardy after leaving body Soul carried off by demon (Devil) Raven carries off souls of damned Lost soul in raven feathers Soul bound for hell given sight of heaven Lost soul gnawed by worms Souls of dead eaten by sky-spirits Souls of wicked eaten by deity Precautions taken with corpse before burial to prevent evil spirits from getting, using body. (Cf. E431.)

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