Motif
Lost soul sought and restored to a sick person
lost_soul_sought_and_restored_to_a_sick_person
A motif of the Soul Loss and Restoration family. 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 II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE. / CHAPTER III. KILLING THE GOD. / FOOTNOTES; lines 10349-10471 confidence: high
The note says that after failing to find the soul in the head-doctor's box, the participants may think he has swallowed it, as other doctors were first supposed to have done.
The passage describes a missing soul being sought and then restored to the patient, with the recovered soul conveyed into the sick person's head.
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