Devils and angels contest for man's soul — Mythoi

Motif

Devils and angels contest for man's soul.

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

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross
Spanish Exempla Keller
Italian Novella Rotunda
Livonian Loorits FFC LXVI No. 808*
Lithuanian Balys Index No. *808
Estonian Aarne 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 808 1 recorded variant
The Death of the Good and of the Bad Man · ATU 808A 1 recorded variant

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