Flower from grave — Mythoi

Motif

Flower from grave.

The dead. · Reincarnation. · Reincarnation in object. · view the constellation · filed as E631.1

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Filed across the traditions

Hungarian Solymossy Hongaarache Sagen (1929) 243 No. 68, Moór Ungarisches Jahrbuch V 430
India *Thompson-Balys
Korean Zong in-Sob 207.
general BP II 126

Within the index

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

4 finer motifs beneath it

Lily from grave Rose from grave Reincarnation as lotus Reincarnation as cockscomb

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 innocent man's blood Tree from sinner's 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.)

Flowers grow on graves from the mouths or hearts of holy persons. (Cf. E631.1.)

Carried in tale types

The Girl as Flower · ATU 407 2 recorded variants

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