Life token: silver object turns dark.
The dead. · The soul. · Life index. · view the constellation · filed as E761.4.5
Motif
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.
- RussianRalston Russian Folk-Tales (London, 1875) 91.