Object dies or stops when owner dies — Mythoi

Motif

Object dies or stops when owner dies.

The dead. · The soul. · Life index. · view the constellation · filed as E766

Within the index

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

3 finer motifs beneath it

Clock stops at moment of owner's death Tree dies when owner dies Post falls when owners lose estate

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 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 Affinity of person and object

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