Ring with life in it.
The dead. · The soul. · Vital objects. · view the constellation · filed as E771
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- Middle EasternThe Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Chapter 30
- GermanicGrimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 192192.— THE MASTEE-THIEF.
- Indian / Hindu (Sanskrit epic)The Ramayan of Valmiki (Griffith verse translation), Book 1, Canto 9
- Indian / Hindu (Sanskrit epic)The Ramayan of Valmiki (Griffith verse translation), Book 5, Canto 65
- Literary CrystallizationThe Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, Purgatory 5
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.
- BretonSébillot Incidents s. v. "animisme".
Within the index
Filed under Vital objects. Objects that have life in them. (Cf. D1620, D1640.)
Filed beside it