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Motif

Life token: object breaks (bursts).

The dead. · The soul. · Life index. · view the constellation · filed as E761.5

Filed across the traditions
  • India Thompson-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.

6 finer motifs beneath it
Life token: pot breaks. (Cf. D1171.1.) Life token: zither string breaks Life token: ring springs asunder Life token: cup springs asunder. (Cf. D1171.6.) Life token: stone breaks. (Cf. E711.7.) Life token: sheaves prostrate themselves
Filed beside it
Blood as life token Life token: staff stuck in ground Life token: tree (flower) fades Life token: object darkens or rusts Life token: troubled liquid. (Cf. D1242.) Life token – miscellaneous

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