μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Blood stops flowing from wound when captives escape.

The dead. · The soul. · Life index. · view the constellation · filed as E761.1.13

Filed across the traditions
  • Papua Ker 64.
Within the index

Filed under Blood as life token.

Filed beside it
Life token: water turns to blood. (Cf. F961.3.1, V211.2.3.2.) Life token: horn fills with blood Life token: track fills with blood Life token: blood of fish calls out Life token: blood boils Life token: blood changes color Life token: comb drips blood Life token: cloth becomes bloody Life token: hero's horse stands in stable in blood up to his knees Life token: milk becomes bloody Life token: roof spouts of castle run with blood Life token: meal ground in mill is the color of blood

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