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Filed under 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.

13 finer motifs beneath 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 Blood stops flowing from wound when captives escape
Filed beside it
Life token: staff stuck in ground Life token: tree (flower) fades Life token: object darkens or rusts Life token: object breaks (bursts) Life token: troubled liquid. (Cf. D1242.) Life token – miscellaneous
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Washers at the ford. Appearance of female figure washing bloody armor, chariot cushions, or human limb (at ford) as sign of coming disaster in battle. (Cf. A485.1, E761.1, M301.6.1, Z129.2.2.)

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