Twining branches grow from graves of lovers. (Cf. E419.6.) — Mythoi

Motif

Twining branches grow from graves of lovers. (Cf. E419.6.)

The dead. · Reincarnation. · Reincarnation in object. · view the constellation · filed as E631.0.1

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross
India Thompson-Balys
Chinese Eberhard FFC CXX 264f.
Japanese Anesaki 253, 346f.
general *Gaidoz Mélusine IV No. 4
general Type 966*
general *Fb "rose" III 80a, "lilie" II 427b, "træ" III 867a
general Chauvin V 107 No. 37

Within the index

Filed under Reincarnation in plant (tree) growing from grave. (Cf. E632, D1610.2.)

2 finer motifs beneath it

Tops of trees from lovers' graves show shapes of their heads Tablets made of trees from lovers' graves magically unite

Filed beside it

Flower from grave bears letters. These commemorate the buried person Plant from blood of slain person Speaking and bleeding trees. Reincarnated persons Tree from innocent man's blood Tree from sinner's grave Flower from grave Grass does not grow on murderer's grave. (Cf. H271.) Herbs grow from grave of healer Dead ogress reincarnated as bramble-bush which prevents escape of fugitive Reincarnation as plant Reincarnation in tree from grave

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Lovers buried apart found in one grave each morning. (Cf. E631.0.1.)

Carried in tale types

The Twining Branches · ATU 970 1 recorded variant

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