Motif
Hunting souls
hunting_souls
A motif of the Soul Loss and Restoration 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. 1 of 2) CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE. / CHAPTER III. KILLING THE GOD. / FOOTNOTES; lines 10349-10471 confidence: medium
The footnote says W. Robertson Smith suggested that the practice of hunting souls denounced in Ezekiel xiii.17 sqq. must have been akin to those described in the text.
A footnote explicitly refers to a practice of hunting souls and connects it with practices described in the surrounding text.
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