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Motifs
- Animals help man overcome monster with external soul. Discover where he keeps his soul. B571.1
- Nightly resuscitation of man with external soul. When enemy takes off necklace containing the soul he revives, but dies again when it is put on. E155.3
- External soul. A person (often a giant or ogre) keeps his soul or life separate from the rest of his body. E710
- External soul avenges murder. E710.2
- Life dependent on external object or event. Person's life is mystically connected with something else and comes to an end when that thing is destroyed. E765
- Life bound up with external event. Death to come when certain thing happens. E765.4
- Ogre killed by burning external soul. G512.5
- Escape by alleged possession of external soul. Monkey caught for his heart (as remedy) makes his captor believe that he has left his heart at home. K544
- Murder by destroying external soul. K956
- Secret of external soul learned by deception. K975.2
- Prophecy that child will have external soul. M354