Animals from body of slain person

Motif

Animals from body of slain person.

Mythological motifs. · Creation of animal life. · Creation of animal life – general. · Creation of animals through transformation. · view the constellation · filed as A1724.1

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Indic The Mahābhārata , Book 1, Section CLVI
Indic The Mahābhārata , Book 12, Section CXVII

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Animals from transformed parts of the body (animal or human).

1 finer motif beneath it

Animals from severed fingers of woman. (Cf. A2102.)

Filed beside it

Animals from transformed hair All living things from Jesus' spattered blood

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

[First Edition: A2102. Fish from Woman's severed fingers. (Cf. A1724.1.)]

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