Life token: troubled liquid. (Cf. D1242.) — Mythoi

Motif

Life token: troubled liquid. (Cf. D1242.)

The dead. · The soul. · Life index. · view the constellation · filed as E761.6

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: troubled water Life token: milk becomes red Life token: boiling liquid Life token: beer foams. (Cf. D1045.) Life token: wine turns to vinegar Life token: milk becomes agitated in pan at death of relative. (Cf. E761.6.2.)

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: object breaks (bursts) Life token – miscellaneous

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

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