Motif
external life or soul hidden outside the body
external_life_or_soul_hidden_outside_the_body
A motif of the External Soul and Life-Token family, within the sub-family Souls, Life, or Strength Outside the Body. 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 6695-6769 confidence: high
Kashmir story: a lad pretending to be an ogress's grandson learns that seven cocks, a spinning-wheel, a pigeon, and a starling contain lives, then kills or smashes them and the ogres and ogresses perish.
Multiple tales describe a being or group whose life or soul is in an animal, object, plant, box, pillar, lemon, snow, or other external locus, so that injury to that locus causes death or vulnerability.
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