TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL. IV

1548 SOULS.
(down) ; niu' de foro upp, sa voro de ire,' when they flew up
again, they were three, Sv. vis. 1, 312-5. 373. A sennrin bleib
icli ewiglich, und wann ich stirb, wird icli a scJiwalbn, Aimer 1,
58. Souls fly about as ravens, Michelet 2, 15 ; they swarm
as little ducks, Klemm 2, 165; night-owls rise from the brain of
a murdered man 4, 220. The story of Madej is given more correctly
in Wend, volksl. 2, 319, conf. Walach. miirch. no. 15. In
Egypt, hieroglyphs the sparrowhawk with a human head is a
picture of the soul, Bunsen's Dingbilder 126. Every soul, after
parting from the body, hovers for a time betwixt the earth and
the moon, Plut. 4, 1154.
p. 829.] The soul is winged, Plato's Phasdr. 246-7-8 ; it loses
and then recovex's its wings 248-9, conf. Gerhard^s Eros, tab. 1
and 5 ; "^v^V ^' ^'^ peOecov Tnaixevq "Alho^he ^ej3i]Kei, II. 16,
856. 22, 361 ; "^v^rj B" r]VT oveipa dTroTrra/xevr] TrevroTT/Tai, Od.
11, 222. Lucian's Encom. Demosth. c. 50 says of the dying
orator :
aTTeinr], evolavit.
The larva, the butterfly is called 6 ve/cuSaXo?. Swed. Icdringsjdl,
old woman's soul = butterfly, Ihre 2, 529. Ir. anamande,
anima dei = butterfly ; conf. the Faun as night-butterfly (Suppl.
to 483 mid.). When a moth flutters round the candle, the Lithu.
women say somebody's dying, and the soul is going hence, N. Pr.
prov. bl. 5, 160.
p. 829.] The soul runs out of the sleeper as a mouse, cat,
weasel, snake, hutterflij.
Yama draws the soul out of a dying man
in the shape of a tiny mannikin, the, man turns pale and sinks,
and when the mannikin comes back, he thinks he has been asleep,
Holtzm. Ind. sag. 1, 65. The soul slips out of the mouth as a
little child, Gefken's Beil. pp. 6. 15 and plates 11. 12. It was
believed in Germany as well, that a dying man's Iteart could
pass into a living man, who would then show twice as much
pluck : so Egge's heart seems to have passed into Fasolt,
Diether's into Dietrich (Ecke 197-8), each time into a brother s
body ; conf. the exchange of hearts betw. lovers, Wigal. 4439.
8813. MS. 1, 166^ and the marriage of souls (Suppl. to 828).
The exchange of figures, the skijjta litum oc homum (Suppl. to
1098 end) is another thing. On the similar doctrine of
transmigration taught by Pythagoras, see Plato's Phasdr. 248-9.
Pheedo p. 82. Ov. Met. 15, 156 seq. O'Kearney 133. 160.