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• Souls of pious as Creator's advisers. A45
• Angels are transformed souls of the pious. A52.0.4
• Charon exacts fee to ferry souls across Styx. A672.1.1
• In other world one room contains the dead, another contains souls of the unborn waiting to enter the wombs of women, and a third contains all the evil spirits. A678
• Dogs incited to devour souls in hell. A689.3.1
• Milky Way as path of souls (demons). A778.2.1
• Origin of rainbow: transformed butterflies (souls of lovers). A791.9
• Origin of light: souls of dead in heaven. A1412.2
• Seven whistlers are the souls of the Jews who crucified Christ. (Cf. F456.1.1.1.) A1715.3
• Tabu: relieving souls in hell. Boy who tends kettles in hell not allowed to raise covers to relieve poor souls. C741
• Magic power to see souls after death. D1825.3.3.1
• Ghosts attack bishop who has suspended priest for singing for all Christian souls. E243
• Summoning souls punished: in hour of man's death they overwhelm him. E380.1
• Abode of animal souls. (Cf. E730.1.) E480.1
• Food placed out for returning souls of dead. E541.1
• Limited number of souls in world necessitates reincarnation. E603
• Creation of souls. E703
• Abode of unborn souls. E706
• Multiple separable souls: ogre's separable spirits live in a tree (plant), fish, honey bee. E718
• Souls of human beings seen in dream. E720.1
• Souls of animals. E730.1
• Souls of dead as Aurora Borealis. E742.3
• Souls as golden apples. Later turn into birds and fly away. E745.5.1
• Souls wander after death. E750.1
• Branching tree as roadway for souls. E750.2.3
• Souls at Judgment Day. E751
• Souls weighed at Judgment Day. (Cf. Q155.1.) E751.1
• Souls await Judgment Day in shapes of birds. E751.2
• Souls of Irish to be judged by St. Patrick on Judgment Day. (Cf. Q173.) E751.3
• Souls of sinners to spend seven years under waters of the sea before Doomsday. E751.5
• Lost souls. E752
• Devil in disguise hunts souls. (Cf. G303.7.1.3.) E752.1.1
• Demons amuse themselves by plaguing souls in hell. E752.1.2.1
• Souls of dead captured on leaving corpse. E752.1.3
• Raven carries off souls of damned. E752.3
• Abandoned souls feed on spiders and night moths. E752.7.1
• Souls of dead eaten by sky-spirits. E752.8
• Souls of wicked eaten by deity. E752.9
• Saved souls. E754
• Demons powerless over souls commended to God before sleep. E754.1.1.1
• Souls of warriors go to Valhalla. E754.2.0.1
• Souls carried to heaven by doves. E754.2.1
• Souls carried to heaven by angels. (Cf V232.2.) E754.2.2
• Souls carried to heaven in chariot of light. E754.5
• Souls climb pillars of smoke and light on way to heaven. (Cf. E722.2.1.) E754.6
• Souls of pious as angels. E754.7
• Angels separate souls going to heaven or hell. E755.0.2
• Souls of dead presented to Adam. E755.0.3
• Souls in heaven. (Cf. A661.) E755.1
• Souls on way to heaven pass through Garden of Eden. E755.1.3
• Sixty thousand Jewish souls in heaven. E755.1.4
• Souls in hell (Hades). E755.2
• Souls leave hell on Sundays. (Cf. Q560.0.1.) E755.2.0.1
• Souls of drowned in heated kettles in hell. E755.2.1
• Souls in hell wrenched from bodies with hot pitchforks by devils. E755.2.1.1
• Souls in chains in hell. (Cf. A671.2.4.7, Q566.1.) E755.2.2
• Dialogue between Christ and the souls in hell. (Cf. V211.7.2.) E755.2.8
• Souls in purgatory. E755.3
• Other destinations of souls. E755.4
• Souls of dead imprisoned in tree. E755.4.1
• Contest over souls. (Cf. E754.1.) E756
• Souls redeemed from hell in shape of sheep. F81.6
• Fairies as souls of departed. (Cf. E700.) F251.2
• Water-spirit keeps souls of drowned persons in dishes in his home. F420.5.2.3
• Mountain spirits as souls of dead. F460.0.1
• Demons have only souls but no bodies. G302.4.3
• Devil rides horse at night hunting lost souls over the heath. G303.7.1.3
• Piercer-of-souls: fishes men. G322
• Guilt or innocence of souls tested by bridge. H210.1
• Thief places candles on crabs (bugs). When they are turned loose in the churchyard the parson and the sexton think that they are the souls of the dead. Meanwhile the thief steals from them. K335.0.5.1
• Saint's requests for releasing souls from hell. (Cf. Q20.) Q174.1.1
• Saint requests that on Doomsday he may bring out of hell, for every hair of his chasuble, seven condemned souls. Q174.1.1.1
• Souls in hell not punished on Sabbath. Q560.2.1
• Certain number of souls released from hell every Saturday through virtue of saint. Q560.2.2
• Pain of souls tormented in hell alternately ebbs and flows. Q562
• Souls in hell alternately drowned and burned. Q562.2
• Souls tormented in hell alternately borne up to firmament and cast down to depths. Q562.3
• Masses release souls from hell (purgatory). V42
• "Beatus" best prayer for saving condemned souls. (Cf. E754.1.1.) V51.5
• Four categories of souls at Judgment. Z71.2.5