Motif
life or strength externally located
life_or_strength_externally_located
A motif of the External Soul and Life-Token family, within the sub-family Souls, Life, or Strength Outside the Body. 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 6771-6845 confidence: high
Meleager's mother is told by the Fates that he will die when a hearth brand burns down; she saves it, but later burns it after he kills her brothers, and he dies.
Across the cited examples, the passage repeatedly states that a person's life, fate, or strength is bound up with an object, hair, animal, plant, twin, or stone outside ordinary bodily life.
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