Motif
External soul or life contained in a removable necklace
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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 6654-6693 confidence: high
Sodewa Bai is born with a golden necklace; an astrologer tells her parents it contains her soul and warns that she would die if it were taken off and worn by another; her mother secures it and warns her.
Both stories describe a person’s soul or life as residing in a golden necklace rather than solely in the body.
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