μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Reincarnation: former lives remembered.

The dead. · Reincarnation. · Reincarnation. · view the constellation · filed as E601

Filed across the traditions
  • Jewish *Neuman, *Penzer X 154 s. v. "Former births"
  • India Thompson-Balys.
Within the index

Filed under Reincarnation. Return from the dead in another form.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Man by magic sees his wives in their former incarnations as dog and sow Reincarnated benefactor helped by man he has befriended in former life Punishments earned on one life paid in next reincarnation
Filed beside it
Origin of reincarnation: miscarried message of immortality Science of reincarnation taught 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

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