Speaking bones of murdered person reveal murder — Mythoi

Motif

Speaking bones of murdered person reveal murder.

The dead. · Reincarnation. · Reincarnation in object. · view the constellation · filed as E632.1

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys
Japanese Ikeda
general Africa (Ibo [Nigeria]): Thomas 58, 67, (Fang): Tessman 124ff.

Within the index

Filed under Reincarnation as musical instrument. The Singing Bone. A musical instrument made from the bones of a murdered person, or from a tree growing from the grave, speaks and tells of the crime.

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