Life token: silver object turns dark — Mythoi

Motif

Life token: silver object turns dark.

The dead. · The soul. · Life index. · view the constellation · filed as E761.4.5

Filed across the traditions

Russian Ralston Russian Folk-Tales (London, 1875) 91.

Within the index

Filed under Life token: object darkens or rusts.

Filed beside it

Life token: knife stuck in tree rusts (becomes bloody) Life token: picture burns black Life token: mirror becomes black (misty). (Cf. D1163.) Life token: ring rusts Life token: charm dries Life token: sword rusts Life token: beads cling together Life token: milk turns dark

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