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.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Ash pole appears at doorway several times on day owner's daughter dies. (It is used for coffin rests. The pole has previously mysteriously escaped being used for other purposes.)Clothes of wicked person burn when owner dies
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 destroyedObject dies or stops when owner dies

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