Motif
external life-token plants
external_life_token_plants
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
germanic
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Household Tales by Brothers Grimm SECOND STORY / FIRST STORY / SECOND STORY / THIRD STORY; lines 12081-12171 confidence: high
The children, lilies, and horses grow; the children ask to ride out into the world, and explain that the lilies will show whether they are healthy, ill, or dead.
The two golden lilies remain at home and indicate the travelers’ condition: fresh for health, withered for illness, and perished for death.
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