Devils and angels contest for man's soul

Motif

Devils and angels contest for man's soul.

The dead. · The soul. · Perils of the soul. · view the constellation · filed as E756.1

Scholars’ trail — 10references

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
Spanish ExemplaKeller
Italian NovellaRotunda
LivonianLoorits FFC LXVI No. 808*
LithuanianBalys Index No. *808
EstonianAarne in FFC XXV No. 808*
Jewish*Neuman.
general *Wesselski Märchen 199
general *Fb "djævel" IV 99b
general *Crane Miraculis 87 No. 11

Within the index

Filed under Contest over souls. (Cf. E754.1.)

Filed beside it

Soul won from devil in card game Raven and dove fight over man's soul Saint wrests soul from demons. (Cf. V229.5.)Saved soul of woman assists her husband's soul in battle against demons. (Cf. E754.)

Carried in tale types

The Devil and the Angel Fight for the Soul (previously The Devil and the Angel Wait for Souls) · ATU 8081 recorded variant
The Death of the Good and of the Bad Man · ATU 808A1 recorded variant

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