Death magically bound to tree. While he is bound no one can die

Motif

Death magically bound to tree. While he is bound no one can die.

Miscellaneous groups of motifs. · Symbolism. · Personifications. · view the constellation · filed as Z111.2

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.

general Wesselski Archiv Orientální I 301. Cf. Type 330
general BP II 188.

Within the index

Filed under Death personified.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Death stuck to tree Death (demons) glued to chair

Filed beside it

Death enclosed in a bottle Death as eight-headed monster Death excluded from sacred grove Death (fate) assumes various forms to destroy men Death's messengers

Carried in tale types

The Smith and the Devil (previously The Smith Outwits the Devil) · ATU 3304 recorded variants

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