batch.motif.comparative-golden-bough-volume-1-frazer-gutenberg-l10213-l10347
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record_id: batch.motif.comparative-golden-bough-volume-1-frazer-gutenberg-l10213-l10347
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-1-frazer.md
passage_locator:
label: CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE. / CHAPTER III. KILLING THE GOD.
/ FOOTNOTES; lines 10213-10347
start: '10213'
end: '10347'
translation: 'The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2)'
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: This passage is a footnote section listing comparative references. Footnote
415 summarizes several stories in which a sleeper’s or person’s soul leaves the
body through the mouth or nose in animal form, including a reptile, raven, cricket,
and white mouse, and states that some stories belong to the same class or type.
The remaining notes chiefly provide bibliographic references for related ethnographic
and folklore material.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The passage states that the stories of Hermotimus and King Gunthram belong
to the same class.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: In the King Gunthram story, the king’s soul comes out of his mouth as a small
reptile.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: The passage states that the soul of Aristeas issued from his mouth in the
form of a raven.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:4
text: In an East Indian story described as the same type, a sleeper’s soul issues
from his nose in the form of a cricket.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:5
text: In a Swabian story, a girl’s soul creeps out of her mouth in the form of a
white mouse.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:6
text: The passage consists mainly of numbered footnotes citing sources on folklore,
ethnography, and religious beliefs.
category: other
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Hermotimus
description: Named as a figure whose story belongs to the same class as the King
Gunthram story.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: King Gunthram
description: A king whose soul comes out of his mouth as a small reptile.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Aristeas
description: A figure whose soul issued from his mouth in the form of a raven.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: East Indian sleeper
description: A sleeper whose soul issues from his nose in the form of a cricket.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Swabian girl
description: A girl whose soul creeps out of her mouth in the form of a white mouse.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
roles:
- id: role:1
label: figure in same-class soul story
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The passage identifies Hermotimus’s story as belonging to the same class
as King Gunthram’s story.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:2
label: person whose soul exits the body in animal form
assigned_to:
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
basis: Each named or described person is associated with a soul leaving the body
through mouth or nose in animal form.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: small reptile
literal_form: small reptile form of King Gunthram’s soul
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:2
label: raven
literal_form: raven form of Aristeas’s soul
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:3
label: cricket
literal_form: cricket form of an East Indian sleeper’s soul
associated_figures:
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:4
label: white mouse
literal_form: white mouse form of a Swabian girl’s soul
associated_figures:
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:5
label: mouth
literal_form: bodily opening through which some souls exit
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:6
label: nose
literal_form: bodily opening through which the East Indian sleeper’s soul exits
associated_figures:
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Soul exits through mouth as small reptile
summary: King Gunthram’s soul leaves his mouth in the form of a small reptile.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Soul exits through mouth as raven
summary: Aristeas’s soul issues from his mouth in the form of a raven.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:3
label: Soul exits through nose as cricket
summary: An East Indian sleeper’s soul issues from his nose in the form of a cricket.
figure_refs:
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:4
label: Soul exits through mouth as white mouse
summary: A Swabian girl’s soul creeps out of her mouth in the form of a white mouse.
figure_refs:
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: soul leaving the body in animal form
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The passage groups several stories in which a soul exits the body through
the mouth or nose and appears as an animal or small creature.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
confidence: high
cautions: The passage is a comparative footnote rather than a full narrative; it
provides compressed summaries only.
- id: motif:2
label: same-type comparative soul stories
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The passage explicitly says that certain stories belong to the same class
and describes an East Indian story as being of the same type.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
confidence: medium
cautions: The underlying tales are not narrated in full in this excerpt.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The passage itself classifies the stories of Hermotimus and King Gunthram
as belonging to the same class.
claim_level: same_motif
target: Hermotimus story and King Gunthram story
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: Only the comparative classification is present; the Hermotimus story
is not summarized in this passage.
- id: claim:2
claim: The passage treats the East Indian sleeper story as the same type as the
preceding soul-exit stories.
claim_level: same_motif
target: East Indian sleeper story compared with the preceding soul-exit stories
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: The passage gives only one detail of the East Indian story.
- id: claim:3
claim: The Swabian girl’s soul-as-white-mouse story is presented alongside the other
examples as part of the same comparative cluster of soul-exit tales.
claim_level: same_function
target: Swabian white-mouse soul story and other animal-form soul-exit stories
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The passage juxtaposes the Swabian example with the others but does
not explicitly use the phrase 'same type' for it.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 10213-10225 / footnote 415
quote_or_summary: Footnote 415 states that the stories of Hermotimus and King Gunthram
belong to the same class; King Gunthram’s soul comes out of his mouth as a small
reptile; Aristeas’s soul issues from his mouth as a raven; an East Indian sleeper’s
soul issues from his nose as a cricket; and a Swabian girl’s soul creeps out of
her mouth as a white mouse.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-1-frazer.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 10226-10347 / footnotes 416-456
quote_or_summary: Footnotes 416-456 list bibliographic references to works on Burma,
the Philippines, India, Karens, Minahassa, Samoa, Sumatra, Melanesia, Fiji, Senegambia,
the Congo, Jesuit Relations, and other comparative ethnographic or folklore sources.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-1-frazer.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
confidence:
extraction: medium
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: medium
notes: The strongest extractable motif material appears in footnote 415. Most of
the passage is bibliographic citation without narrative content, so broader motif
extraction is limited.
reviewer_status:
status: needs_review
reviewer: ''
reviewed_at: ''
notes: Machine-generated draft from OpenAI Batch; not human-reviewed.
extracted_by: openai_batch:gpt-5.5
extracted_at: '2026-04-28'
notes: |-
No available taxonomy reference was assigned because the passage’s animal-form soul-exit motif does not directly match the supplied motif-family list, and 'small reptile' was not treated as the supplied 'serpent' symbol.
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