Motif
Life-token reveals absent kin's fate
life_token_reveals_absent_kin_s_fate
A motif of the External Soul and Life-Token family, within the sub-family Life-Tokens Signaling an Absent Person's Fate. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
islamicate folklore
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The Arabian Nights Entertainments The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 10838-10945 confidence: high
Prince Perviz mourns Bahman but resolves to begin the same quest; before departing he gives Princess Parizade a hundred-pearl chaplet whose sticking beads will indicate that his brother's fate has befallen him.
Prince Perviz gives Princess Parizade a pearl chaplet that will stick if he shares his brother's fate, and she later observes the first pearl fixed in place.
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