30 motifs match “reborn”  ·  back to the chapters

• God reborn of human woman to avenge self on giant. (Cf. A179.5.) A162.5
• Culture hero reborn. A510.2
• Theft of light by being swallowed and reborn. The hero transforms himself to a particle. The daughter of the guardian of light swallows him as she is drinking water. He is reborn. As a child in the house he steals light. A1411.2
• Rejuvenation by being reborn. Man in fish form eaten and reborn. (Cf. T511.) D1889.7
• Life in land of dead contrary to ours. People grow younger and smaller till they become nothing and are reborn. E489.2
• Reincarnation: woman reborn as man. E605.1.1
• Man reborn as woman. E605.1.2
• Reincarnation: god reborn as man. E605.2
• Reincarnation: spirit reborn as man. E605.2.1
• Horse-headed men reborn as money-lenders. E605.8
• Person transforms self, is swallowed and reborn in new form. (Cf. D605.7, D610.) E607.2
• Person is swallowed and then reborn. E607.2.1
• Bad woman cursed to be reborn as bat. E692.1
• Mean person reborn as hyena. E692.2
• Tricky potter reborn as crab. E692.3
• Jealous woman reborn as chilly. E692.4
• Cruel woman reborn as firefly. E692.5
• Drowned girl reborn as leech to take revenge on murderers. E693.1
• Woman reborn as bedbug to take revenge on husband. (Cf. E616.5.) E693.2
• Woman reborn as scorpion to take revenge on husband. E693.3
• Hungry ghost reborn as jackal. E694.1
• Frustrated woman reborn as tobacco plant. E694.2
• Frustrated boy reborn as lizard. E694.3
• Childless woman reborn as fish. E694.4
• Vulture eats only those who will be reborn as human beings in their next birth. E697
• Shooting star signifies a birth. Stars are the dead. When they fall they are being reborn. At death they are replaced in the sky. E741.1.2
• Fairy transforms self to fly, allows self to be swallowed by woman and reborn as fairy. F392
• Punishment: man reborn as girl. (Cf. Q292.1.) Q551.5.1.1
• Punishment: king and queen reborn as children of scavenger. Q551.5.1.2
• Hero enters womb of sleeping woman and is reborn. T539.1