Person transforms self, is swallowed and reborn in new form. (Cf. D605.7, D610.)

Motif

Person transforms self, is swallowed and reborn in new form. (Cf. D605.7, D610.)

The dead. · Reincarnation. · Reincarnation. · view the constellation · filed as E607.2

Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

Irish myth*Cross
WelshMacCulloch Celtic 110
IndiaThompson-Balys
N. Am. IndianThompson Tales 282 n. 44.

Within the index

Filed under Methods of reincarnation.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Person is swallowed and then reborn Rebirth by crawling into woman's womb

Filed beside it

Bones of dead collected and buried. Return in another form directly from grave Hauling canoe over dead man's body causes return from dead in new form Reincarnation by fasting Cauldron of regeneration (reincarnation)

Travels with

Repeated transformation. Transformation into one form after another Man reincarnated as child. (Cf. E607.2.)

wander