Grass does not grow on murderer's grave. (Cf. H271.)

Motif

Grass does not grow on murderer's grave. (Cf. H271.)

The dead. · Reincarnation. · Reincarnation in object. · view the constellation · filed as E631.2

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.

EnglandBaughman.
general Fb "græs"

Within the index

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

1 finer motif beneath it

Reincarnation as a grass straw

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 Flower from grave 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

Grass refuses to grow: indication of innocence of man hanged there. (Cf. E631.2, F974.)

wander