Motif
detachable hearts as lives
detachable_hearts_as_lives
A motif of the External Soul and Life-Token family. 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. 2 of 2) The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS; lines 7106-7174 confidence: high
Samoyed story: seven warlocks kill a mother and carry off a sister; they remove and store their hearts; the wronged man’s wife steals the hearts, and the man destroys them after using the seventh warlock’s knowledge of a spirit-bag to restore his mother.
The warlocks remove their hearts nightly, and destroying or withholding the hearts controls whether they live or die.
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