μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Reincarnation as bird.

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

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Filed across the traditions
  • Estonian Loorits Grundzüge I 347–363
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Buddhist myth Malalasekera I 870, II 17
  • Japanese Ikeda
  • Chinese Eberhard FFC CXX 264ff, Graham
  • Aztec Alexander Lat. Am. 61.
  • general Fb "sjæl" III 214a
  • general Gjerdman Nattskärran och nogra andra Spökfåglar (Arv I 27–68)
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Filed under Reincarnation as animal.

18 finer motifs beneath it
Reincarnation of murdered child as bird 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 Reincarnation as parrot
Filed beside it
Reincarnation: man to animal to man Reincarnation as domestic animal Reincarnation as wild animal Reincarnation as reptile Reincarnation as amphibian Reincarnation as insect Reincarnation as fish. (Cf. D170, E713.1.) Reincarnation as worm Reincarnation as animal – miscellaneous

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