μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

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.

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

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Scholars’ trail — 8references

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.

  • BretonSébillot Incidents s. v. "os"
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • JapaneseIkeda.
  • general *Type 780
  • general **Mackensen FFC XLIX
  • general BP I 260, II 532
  • general *Fb "streng" III 603a, "harpe" I 559b, IV 201b, "ben" IV 32b
  • general Child I 121–135, 494, IV 449
Within the index

Filed under Reincarnation in object.

1 finer motif beneath it
Speaking bones of murdered person reveal murder
Filed beside it
Reincarnation in plant (tree) growing from grave. (Cf. E632, D1610.2.)Reincarnation as dish. Bones made into dish. These speak. (Cf. E632.)Reincarnation as fountainReincarnation as water. (Cf. D283.)Reincarnation as ball (of gold and iron)Reincarnation as whirlwindReincarnation as stoneReincarnation as smokeReincarnation as rainbowReincarnation as mineralReincarnation as meteorReincarnation: man-object-man. In most of the versions of E632 (Reincarnation as musical instrument) the hero (heroine) finally comes back to life in his usual formReincarnation to object – miscellaneous
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Reincarnation in plant (tree) growing from grave. (Cf. E632, D1610.2.)Reincarnation as dish. Bones made into dish. These speak. (Cf. E632.)
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