μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Life bound up with candle. When the candle goes out, person dies.

The dead. · The soul. · Life index. · view the constellation · filed as E765.1.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic De la Saussaye 315, *Boberg
  • Spanish Boggs FFC XC 82 No. 708*A.
  • general *Krappe in Penzer Ocean of Story VIII 107
  • general Anderson Die Meleagrossage bei den Letten (Philologus N. F. XXXIII [1923])
Within the index

Filed under Life bound up with light (flame).

Filed beside it
Life bound up with burning brand (torch) Life-lights in lower world. Each light mystically connected with the life of a person. When light is extinguished, person dies
Carried in tale types
  • Meleager · ATU 1187 1 recorded variant

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