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Motif

Life token: tree (flower) fades.

The dead. · The soul. · Life index. · view the constellation · filed as E761.3

Filed across the traditions
  • French Sébillot France III 433
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Japanese Ikeda
  • Philippine (Tinguian) Cole 93, 96 n. 3, 97
  • Papua Ker 61
  • Africa (Angola) Chatelain 87 No. 5, (Kaffir): Kidd 225, (Madagascar): Dandouau Contes Populaires de Sakalava 231.
  • general *Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XX 70 n. 1
  • general Fb "lilie"
  • general Böckel Psychologie der Volksdichtung 255
  • general *Loomis White Magic 125f. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s. v. "flétrissement"
  • general Indonesian, Polynesian: Dixon 234 n. 46
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.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Life token: bamboo stalks grow with joints upside down Lifen token: fruit decays on tree Life token: fruit falls from tree Life token: trees prostrate themselves
Filed beside it
Blood as life token Life token: staff stuck in ground Life token: object darkens or rusts Life token: object breaks (bursts) Life token: troubled liquid. (Cf. D1242.) Life token – miscellaneous

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