Motif
life bound to breakable vessel
life_bound_to_breakable_vessel
A motif of the External Soul and Life-Token family, within the sub-family Fatal Attacks on External Life-Tokens and Life-Sites. 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) CONTENTS / NOTE. OFFERINGS OF FIRST-FRUITS. / INDEX. / FOOTNOTES; lines 14992-15134 confidence: high
Frazer compares an Arabian story with Kashmiri and Bengali stories; notes an Arabian witch whose life is bound up with a phial; and describes a hero who drinks an ogress's milk and is thereby regarded as her son, with further kinship parallels cited.
The cited Arabian story says a witch's life is bound up with a phial and she dies when it breaks.
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