μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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 – miscellaneous.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Drowned girl reborn as leech to take revenge on murderersWoman 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 objectReincarnation as punishmentReincarnation as compensationGradual reincarnation – man to tigerReincarnated person restored to original formVulture eats only those who will be reborn as human beings in their next birth
Travels with
Reasons for reincarnation. (Cf. E693.)

wander