Death enclosed in a bottle

Motif

Death enclosed in a bottle.

Miscellaneous groups of motifs. · Symbolism. · Personifications. · view the constellation · filed as Z111.1

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Middle EasternThe Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Chapter 2

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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. "bouteille"
IndiaThompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Death personified.

1 finer motif beneath it

Death imprisoned by a soldier in a magic knapsack, bottle or nutshell

Filed beside it

Death magically bound to tree. While he is bound no one can die Death as eight-headed monster Death excluded from sacred grove Death (fate) assumes various forms to destroy men Death's messengers

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