μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
  • general Fb "juletræ" II 57a, "sjæl" III 214b. English: Child I 143
Within the index

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

1 finer motif beneath it
Dry branch on innocent man's grave blossoms as proof of innocence
Filed beside it
Twining branches grow from graves of lovers. (Cf. E419.6.)Flower from grave bears letters. These commemorate the buried personPlant from blood of slain personSpeaking and bleeding trees. Reincarnated personsTree 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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