μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Souls in purgatory.

The dead. · The soul. · Perils of the soul. · view the constellation · filed as E755.3

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Cited in the index
  • general **Landau Hölle und Fegefeuer in Volksglaube, Dichtung und Kirchenlehre (Heidelberg, 1909)
  • general Pauli (ed. Bolte) Nos. 464, 467, 469, Crane Liber de Miraculis 86 No. 10
  • general Hdwb. d. Abergl. s. v. "Fegefeuer"
  • general Ward Catalogue of Romances II 440ff.
  • general Herbert ibid. III 330
  • general Alphabet Nos. 504, 661. Irish: *Cross, Beal XXI 330–333, O'Suilleabhain 95, 100, 102f.
Within the index

Filed under Destination of the soul.

1 finer motif beneath it
Soul in purgatory sends letter bidding his son reward one who has prayed him from purgatory
Filed beside it
Resurrected boys choose to return to heaven Angels separate souls going to heaven or hell Souls of dead presented to Adam Souls in heaven. (Cf. A661.) Souls in hell (Hades) Other destinations of souls

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