Motif
External life or death bound to an egg or heart
external_life_or_death_bound_to_an_egg_or_heart
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 CHAPTER VI. / LEGENDS. / FOOTNOTES: / INDEX.; lines 15988-16303 confidence: high
"Eggs, lives of mythical beings connected with"; "stories about external hearts and fatal eggs".
The index explicitly lists eggs connected with the lives of mythical beings and stories about external hearts and fatal eggs.
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