Comparative mythology corpus

Strength Residing In Hair

1 appearances across 1 tradition groups.

Evidence

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TraditionSourcePassageConfidenceEvidenceRecord
Comparative The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS; lines 7255-7309 high Frazer states that in folk-tales a person’s soul or strength may be bound up with hair, and says that natives of Amboina used to think their strength was in their hair and would leave them if it were shorn. record