Death's messengers

Motif

Death's messengers.

Miscellaneous groups of motifs. · Symbolism. · Personifications. · view the constellation · filed as Z111.6

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.

IndiaThompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Death personified.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Death's messengers bribed with food Salt in food given Death's messengers renders them harmless

Filed beside it

Death enclosed in a bottle 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

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