μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • Jewish*Neuman, *Penzer X 154 s. v. "Former births"
  • IndiaThompson-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 sowReincarnated benefactor helped by man he has befriended in former lifePunishments earned on one life paid in next reincarnation
Filed beside it
Origin of reincarnation: miscarried message of immortalityScience of reincarnation taughtReincarnation in form determined at deathLimited number of souls in world necessitates reincarnationDefinite number of reincarnationsReincarnation in another human formReasons for reincarnation. (Cf. E693.)Methods of reincarnation

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