Reincarnation of murdered child as bird — Mythoi

Motif

Reincarnation of murdered child as bird.

The dead. · Reincarnation. · Reincarnation as animal. · view the constellation · filed as E613.0.1

Filed across the traditions

English Child I 126, 180f.
India *Thompson-Balys
Africa Werner African 211, (Basuto): Jacottet 56.
general *Type 720
general *BP I 422
general *Fb "fugl" I 380b

Within the index

Filed under Reincarnation as bird.

Filed beside it

Reincarnation of unbaptized child as bird Reincarnation of old maids as birds Reincarnation of drowned persons as birds Severed heads of monster become birds Reincarnation of girl eaten by tiger as bird Reincarnation as duck Reincarnation as owl Reincarnation as hawk. (Cf. D152.1.) Reincarnation as swallow. (Cf. D151.1.) Reincarnation as cuckoo Reincarnation as dove Reincarnation as raven Reincarnation as quail Reincarnation as heron Reincarnation as goose Reincarnation as peacock

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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