Motif
external heart or externalized death
external_heart_or_externalized_death
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
slavic
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Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore FOOTNOTES: / CHAPTER II. / MYTHOLOGICAL. / FOOTNOTES:; lines 7509-7649 confidence: medium
The note cites versions of the Giant's heart or Koshchei's death, an Egyptian myth, and a Hottentot story where a killed girl's extracted heart is placed in a milk-filled calabash and she grows again.
The note names a story family as the Giant's heart or Koshchei's death and gives a parallel involving an extracted heart kept outside the body.
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