μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Reincarnation as cow. (Cf. D133.1.)

The dead. · Reincarnation. · Reincarnation as animal. · view the constellation · filed as E611.2

Filed across the traditions
  • India *Thompson-Balys.
  • general *Type 510, 511
  • general BP *I 187, III 61ff.
  • general Wesselski Deutsche Märchen vor Grimm (1938) vii ff.
  • general *MacCulloch Childhood 108
Within the index

Filed under Reincarnation as domestic animal.

5 finer motifs beneath it
Divinity reincarnated as cow Reincarnation as bull Reincarnation as an ox Reincarnation as calf Reincarnation as a buffalo
Filed beside it
Reincarnation as horse. (Cf. D131.) Man reincarnated as swine Man reincarnated as goat. (Cf. D134.) Man reincarnated as cat Man reincarnated as dog. (Cf. D141.)
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Transformation to cow

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