μῦθοι Mythoi
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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 deathTree dies when owner diesPost 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 deathLife dependent on external object or event. Person's life is mystically connected with something else and comes to an end when that thing is destroyedAffinity of person and object

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