Motif
Life bound to an animal in a cage
life_bound_to_an_animal_in_a_cage
A motif of the External Soul and Life-Token family, within the sub-family Animals Holding or Sharing Human Life. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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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 6586-6652 confidence: high
Punchkin says that far away, in a jungle, inside a circle of palm-trees and beneath six water-filled vessels, is a cage with a little green parrot: 'on the life of the parrot depends my life.'
Punchkin's life depends on a caged green parrot, and the ogre's soul is in a caged bird; injury to the bird maps onto injury and death of the being.
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