Reincarnation: boy to bird to boy. Boy returns as bird, who later becomes the boy.
The dead. · Reincarnation. · Reincarnation as animal. · view the constellation · filed as E610.1.1
Motif
Cited in the index
- general *Type 720
- general *BP I 422.
Carried in tale types
- The Juniper Tree (previously My Mother Slew Me; My Father Ate Me) · ATU 720 1 recorded variant
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