μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Life bound up with that of animal. Person to live as long as animal lives.

The dead. · The soul. · Life index. · view the constellation · filed as E765.2

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross (Diarmaid)
  • Italian Basile Pentamerone IV No. 5
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • N. Am. Indian Hultkrantz 364–374.
  • general *Krappe in Penzer Ocean of Story VIII 107
Within the index

Filed under Life dependent on external object or event. Person's life is mystically connected with something else and comes to an end when that thing is destroyed.

Filed beside it
Life bound up with light (flame) Life bound up with object Life bound up with external event. Death to come when certain thing happens One person's life dependent on another's

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