μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Tree from innocent man's blood.

The dead. · Reincarnation. · Reincarnation in object. · view the constellation · filed as E631.0.5

Filed across the traditions
  • India Thompson-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 person Plant from blood of slain person Speaking and bleeding trees. Reincarnated persons 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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