The constellation
E600 Reincarnation. Return from the dead in another form
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- Origin of reincarnation: miscarried message of immortality · E600.1 entry
- Science of reincarnation taught · E600.2 entry
- Reincarnation: former lives remembered · E601 entry
- Reincarnation in form determined at death · E602 entry
- Limited number of souls in world necessitates reincarnation · E603 entry
- Definite number of reincarnations · E604 entry
- Reincarnation in another human form · E605 entry
- Reasons for reincarnation. (Cf. E693.) · E606 entry
- Methods of reincarnation · E607 entry
keeps company
- Soul borne away on wind · E722.2.2 entry
- Soul of dead in a temple · E755.4.2 entry
- Man's voice shakes heavens · F688.1 entry
- Descent to lower world of dead (Hell, Hades) · F81 entry
- Orpheus. Journey to land of dead to bring back person from the dead · F81.1 entry
- Self-mutilation. (Cf. T327.1, T327.2, T333.) · S160.1 entry
- Supernatural growth. (Cf. T585.) · T615 entry
- Giant as culture hero · A523 entry
- Tabu: profanely calling up spirit (devil, etc.) · C10 entry
- Tabu: eating in other world · C211 entry
cross-ref
Thompson cites
- Myths & Legends of China · Chapter XII
attested in
- Tales of the North American Indians · Tale 55