μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Life Index. Object or animal has mystic connection with person. Changes in one correspond to changes in the other.

The dead. · The soul. · Life index. · view the constellation · filed as E760

Filed across the traditions
  • India Thompson-Balys.
Within the index
4 finer motifs beneath it
Life token. (Cf. E760.) Object (animal, person) has mystic connection with the life of a person, so that changes in the life-token indicate changes in the person, usually disaster or death Life dependent on external object or event. Person's life is mystically connected with something else and comes to an end when that thing is destroyed Object dies or stops when owner dies Affinity of person and object
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Life token. (Cf. E760.) Object (animal, person) has mystic connection with the life of a person, so that changes in the life-token indicate changes in the person, usually disaster or death

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