Motif
Lost soul recovered in visible or material form
lost_soul_recovered_in_visible_or_material_form
A motif of the Soul Loss and Restoration family, within the sub-family Material, Object, and Tree-Mediated Soul Restoration. 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 I. THE KING OF THE WOOD. / MACAULAY. / CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE.; lines 3423-3497 confidence: high
A Melanesian woman catches a fluttering thing like a moth, declares that she has caught the soul, and opens her hands above the corpse's mouth, but the corpse does not revive.
Multiple reports describe a missing soul as catchable or restorable in a concrete form such as a fluttering thing, bone, wood, shell, branch, leaf, wax, hair, miniature human being, or firefly.
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