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.

  • S. Am. Indian (Warrau)Alexander Lat. Am. 272.
  • general *Type 720
Within the index

Filed under Methods of reincarnation.

1 finer motif beneath it
Bones of dead collected and thrown into river
Filed beside it
Person transforms self, is swallowed and reborn in new form. (Cf. D605.7, D610.)Hauling canoe over dead man's body causes return from dead in new formReincarnation by fastingCauldron of regeneration (reincarnation)
Carried in tale types

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