Motif
transmigration between human and animal lives
transmigration_between_human_and_animal_lives
A motif of the Shapeshifter and Transformation family, within the sub-family Animal Bodies and Soul Transmigration. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
greek
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Phaedrus PHAEDRUS / INTRODUCTION. / ON THE DECLINE OF GREEK LITERATURE. / PHAEDRUS; lines 2323-2387 confidence: high
After a thousand years good and evil souls draw lots and choose a second life; a human soul may enter a beast's life or return from beast to human form.
The passage states that the soul of a man may pass into the life of a beast and return from beast into human form.
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