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

Motif

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.

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

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

IndiaThompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Life Index. Object or animal has mystic connection with person. Changes in one correspond to changes in the other.

5 finer motifs beneath it

Life bound up with light (flame)Life bound up with that of animal. Person to live as long as animal lives 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

Filed beside it

Life token. (Cf. E760.) Object (animal, person) has mystic connection with the life of a person, so that changes in the life-token indicate changes in the person, usually disaster or death Object dies or stops when owner dies Affinity of person and object

Travels with

Soul kept in object. (Cf. E765.)Soul as object. (Cf. E765.)

wander