IHHS, the I Hate Horcruxes Society (was Re: Harry Horcrux redux)

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 155151

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Kemper <iam.kemper at ...> wrote:

Kemper:
> Are you saying that JKR steals?  Because the idea of hiding the soul has
> been around well before the D&D geekdom.  There's a Russian fairy tale that
> depicts a magician (evil, obviously) who separated his soul from his body
> and hid it in an object; his nickname was The Deathless.  Maybe Alla can
> expound further.

Geoff:
This triggered a memory with me. 

Igor Stravinsky's ballet suite "The Firebird" is based on this fable. The evil King Kastchei 
keeps his soul in a casket and Ivan, the hero, has to destroy this with the help of the Fire Bird 
- does that produce echoes of a Phoenix?