Comparative mythology corpus

Mirror Avoidance During Sickness Or Dying

1 appearances across 1 tradition groups.

Evidence

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TraditionSourcePassageConfidenceEvidenceRecord
Comparative 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 3606-3684 high The passage explains covering mirrors in sick-rooms as protection because in sickness the soul may easily take flight; it compares this with rules preventing sick people from sleeping because sleep projects the soul outside the body. record