μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Reincarnation for revenge.

The dead. · Reincarnation. · Reincarnation – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as E693

Filed across the traditions
  • India Thompson-Balys.
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Filed under Reincarnation – miscellaneous.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Drowned girl reborn as leech to take revenge on murderers Woman reborn as bedbug to take revenge on husband. (Cf. E616.5.) Woman reborn as scorpion to take revenge on husband
Filed beside it
Reincarnation: animal to object Reincarnation as punishment Reincarnation as compensation Gradual reincarnation – man to tiger Reincarnated person restored to original form Vulture eats only those who will be reborn as human beings in their next birth
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Reasons for reincarnation. (Cf. E693.)

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