Life-lights in lower world. Each light mystically connected with the life of a person. When light is extinguished, person dies.
The dead. · The soul. · Life index. · view the constellation · filed as E765.1.3
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 2references
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.
- general *Type 332
- general BP I 377ff., *388.
Carried in tale types
- Godfather Death · ATU 3322 recorded variants