Life token: staff stuck in ground

Motif

Life token: staff stuck in ground.

The dead. · The soul. · Life index. · view the constellation · filed as E761.2

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

IndiaThompson-Balys.

Within the index

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.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Life token: staff stuck in ground shakes Life token: staff stuck in ground falls

Filed beside it

Blood as life token 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

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