Motif
ritual recovery and reintegration of a lost soul
ritual_recovery_and_reintegration_of_a_lost_soul
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 I. THE KING OF THE WOOD. / MACAULAY. / CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE.; lines 3423-3497 confidence: high
Salish or Flathead example: souls may leave without immediate death; a medicine-man learns the names in a dream, receives soul tokens through a roof hole with feathers, lights a fire, sorts dead from living souls, and restores each soul through the head into the heart.
The passage reports rites in which specialists recover a lost soul and return it to a patient through the head, forehead, breast, or heart, often using a material vehicle.
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