Death as eight-headed monster

Motif

Death as eight-headed monster.

Miscellaneous groups of motifs. · Symbolism. · Personifications. · view the constellation · filed as Z111.3

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.

AfricaWerner African 177.

Within the index

Filed under Death personified.

1 finer motif beneath it

Death allegorically personified as an animal made up of several different animals

Filed beside it

Death enclosed in a bottle Death magically bound to tree. While he is bound no one can die Death excluded from sacred grove Death (fate) assumes various forms to destroy men Death's messengers

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