μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Herbs grow from grave of healer.

The dead. · Reincarnation. · Reincarnation in object. · view the constellation · filed as E631.3

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross.
  • general Brouwer Das Volkslied in Deutschland, Frankreich, Belgien und Holland (Groningen, 1930) 196ff.
Within the index

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

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 Grass does not grow on murderer's grave. (Cf. H271.) Dead ogress reincarnated as bramble-bush which prevents escape of fugitive Reincarnation as plant Reincarnation in tree from grave

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