Speaking bones of murdered person reveal murder

Motif

Speaking bones of murdered person reveal murder.

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

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.

IndiaThompson-Balys
JapaneseIkeda
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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