μῦθοι Mythoi
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Scholars’ trail — 5references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • SwissJegerlehner Oberwallis 311 No. 41
  • GreekFox 198, 201
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • AfricaFrobenius 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 personSpeaking and bleeding trees. Reincarnated personsTree from innocent man's bloodTree from sinner's graveFlower from graveGrass does not grow on murderer's grave. (Cf. H271.)Herbs grow from grave of healerDead ogress reincarnated as bramble-bush which prevents escape of fugitiveReincarnation as plantReincarnation in tree from grave

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