μῦθοι Mythoi
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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.
Within the index

Filed under Reincarnation in object.

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