μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

  • JapaneseIkeda
  • Easter IslandMétraux Ethnology 376
  • PapuaKer 92. Cf. Virgil Aeneid III 22ff.
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 personPlant from blood of slain personSpeaking and bleeding trees. Reincarnated personsTree from innocent man's bloodTree 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 plant

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