μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Reincarnation into degraded form as punishment.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Miraculous punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q551.5.1

Filed across the traditions
  • India *Thompson-Balys.
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Filed under Reincarnation as punishment. (Cf. E600, Q584.3.)

3 finer motifs beneath it
Punishment: man reborn as girl. (Cf. Q292.1.) Punishment: king and queen reborn as children of scavenger Dying priest looks greedily on ripe plum: is reincarnated as insect feeding within plum

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