Motif
external life-token or life-double
external_life_token_or_life_double
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 7311-7386 confidence: high
The passage states that, as in folk-tales, a person's life may be physically sympathetically united not only with plants but also with an animal or thing, so that its death or destruction is followed by the person's death.
The second paragraph generalizes that a person's life may be linked to an animal or thing and illustrates this with a column, a preserved knife, Malay soul-fate relation, and the Banks Islands tamaniu.
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