μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Reincarnation as fish. (Cf. D170, E713.1.)

The dead. · Reincarnation. · Reincarnation as animal. · view the constellation · filed as E617

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Buddhist myth Malalasekera I 999, 1148, II 691.
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Filed under Reincarnation as animal.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Reincarnation as salmon. (Cf. B124.1, D176.) Reincarnation as goldfish Reincarnation as shark Reincarnation as whale
Filed beside it
Reincarnation: man to animal to man Reincarnation as domestic animal Reincarnation as wild animal Reincarnation as bird Reincarnation as reptile Reincarnation as amphibian Reincarnation as insect Reincarnation as worm Reincarnation as animal – miscellaneous
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Transformation: man to fish Soul hidden in apple (ball) in a salmon which appears every seven years in certain fountain. (Cf. D1651.10.)

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