Life bound up with magic object. When magic object is lost, person dies — Mythoi

Motif

Life bound up with magic object. When magic object is lost, person dies.

The dead. · The soul. · Life index. · view the constellation · filed as E765.3.0.1

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Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter XXVIII XXVIII. The Killing of the Tree-Spirit

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross.

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Filed under Life bound up with object.

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Person to live as long as church stands Life bound up with calabash. As calabash grows, so does girl Life bound up with tree Girl lives until her cowslip is pulled Man's magic contains his life essence

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Man kept alive by consecrated sword. (Cf. D1081, E765.3.0.1.)

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