Reincarnation. Return from the dead in another form

Motif

Reincarnation. Return from the dead in another form.

The dead. · Reincarnation. · Reincarnation. · view the constellation · filed as E600

“As she came around the second time another touched her with his rod, and then another and another, until at the seventh round she fell out of the ring, and they put her into the box and closed the lid fast. The other ghosts seemed never to notice what had happened. They took up the box and started home toward the east. In a little while the girl came to life again and begged to be let out of the box, but they made no answer and went on.”

— Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 55 · served from our shelf receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions

North American IndigenousTales of the North American Indians, Tale 55 receipt

On our shelf — the index’s citations, resolved to served chapters

ChineseMyths & Legends of China, Chapter XIIThompson cites: Werner 314

Scholars’ trail — 10references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

IndiaPenzer X 336 s. v. "Transmigration", *Cowell Jātaka Index s. v. "Bodhisatta" and "Rebirth", Keith 100, *Thompson-Balys
Irish myth*Cross, Nutt "The Irish Vision of the Happy Otherworld and the Celtic Doctrine of Rebirth" in K. Meyer Voyage of Bran
Icelandic*Boberg
EstonianLoorits Grundzüge I 321ff.
Jewish*Neuman
SiberianHolmberg Siberian 473
ChineseWerner 314 → on our shelf: Myths & Legends of China, Chapter XII
N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 337 n. 216a, Alexander N. Am. 280 n. 18
Eskimo (West Hudson Bay)Boas BAM XV 359, (Greenland): Rasmussen I 115, III 171, (Central Eskimo): Boas RBAE VI 639
S. Am. Indian (Brazil)Oberg 109.

Within the index

9 finer motifs beneath it

Origin of reincarnation: miscarried message of immortality Science of reincarnation taught Reincarnation: former lives remembered Reincarnation in form determined at death Limited number of souls in world necessitates reincarnation Definite number of reincarnations Reincarnation in another human form Reasons for reincarnation. (Cf. E693.)Methods of reincarnation

Travels with

Reincarnation as punishment. (Cf. E600, Q584.3.)

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Giant as culture hero Tabu: profanely calling up spirit (devil, etc.)Tabu: eating in other world Tabu: drinking Looking tabu Transformation: sea dragon to serpent Transformation: dragon-king to gust of wind Sea dragon in serpent's form to accompany hero. (Cf. D419.1.1, B11.)Disenchantment by striking Magic object found in fort Magic trousers (breeches)Magic bracelet

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