external soul

Details

Instance of

narrative motif, folklore motif

Part of

Irish mythology

Depicts

death, dead human

catalog code

E710.

described by source

Motif-Index of Folk-Literature, The ocean of story, being C. H. Tawney's translation of Somadeva's Katha sarit sagara (or Ocean of streams of story), Q131611893, Bidrag til en Ordbog over Jyske Almuesmål, The Childhood of Fiction, Q131673746

facet of

the Soul

indigenous to

Bretons, Icelanders, French Canadians, Greeks, Indians, Filipinos, indigenous peoples of North America, Swahili people, Irish people

partially coincident with

escape by alleged possession of external soul