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Motif

Plant from blood of slain person.

The dead. · Reincarnation. · Reincarnation in object. · view the constellation · filed as E631.0.3

Filed across the traditions
  • Swiss Jegerlehner Oberwallis 311 No. 41
  • Greek Fox 198, 201
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Africa Frobenius Atlantis IV 225f.
  • general *Fb "blod" IV 49a, "juletræ", II 57a
Within the index

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

1 finer motif beneath it
Red plant from blood of slain person
Filed beside it
Twining branches grow from graves of lovers. (Cf. E419.6.) Flower from grave bears letters. These commemorate the buried 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

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