Murder by destroying external soul

Motif

Murder by destroying external soul.

Deceptions. · Killing or maiming by deception. · Various kinds of treacherous murder. · view the constellation · filed as K956

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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.

general Type 302.

Within the index

Filed under Various kinds of treacherous murder.

1 finer motif beneath it

Gradual murder by piecemeal destruction of separable soul

Filed beside it

Murder by choking Animal (monster) killed from within Murder by squeezing Murder by burning Murder by blinding Murder by drowning. (Cf. K926.)Other kinds of treacherous murder

Carried in tale types

The Ogre's (Devil's) Heart in the Egg · ATU 30212 recorded variants

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