μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Life token: object darkens or rusts.

The dead. · The soul. · Life index. · view the constellation · filed as E761.4

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.

9 finer motifs beneath 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: silver object turns dark Life token: charm dries Life token: sword rusts Life token: beads cling together Life token: milk turns dark
Filed beside it
Blood as life token Life token: staff stuck in ground Life token: tree (flower) fades Life token: object breaks (bursts) Life token: troubled liquid. (Cf. D1242.) Life token – miscellaneous

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