Motif
capture and confinement of the separable soul
capture_and_confinement_of_the_separable_soul
A motif of the External Soul and Life-Token family, within the sub-family Ritual Capture and Safekeeping of Souls. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
comparative
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) CHAPTER I. THE KING OF THE WOOD. / MACAULAY. / CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE.; lines 3499-3538 confidence: high
Hawaiian sorcerers catch souls of living people, shut them in calabashes, give them to be eaten, and squeeze captured souls to discover secret burial places.
The Hawaiian example presents souls of living people being caught and enclosed in calabashes; other examples also treat souls as separable and movable.
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