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

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

Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

IcelandicDe la Saussaye 315, *Boberg
SpanishBoggs 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 11871 recorded variant

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