ATU 720 The Juniper Tree (previously My Mother Slew Me; My Father Ate Me)

ATU 720

The Juniper Tree (previously My Mother Slew Me; My Father Ate Me)

Aarne–Thompson–Uther tale-type index · Other Tales Of The Supernatural · The full type description is not served here; the number and name are the classification facts, and the motifs below are the doors onward.

Motifs the recorded variants carry

Bones of dead collected and buried. Return in another form directly from grave. 3 variants
Relative's flesh eaten unwittingly. 3 variants
Punishment: millstone dropped on guilty person. 3 variants
Murder by slamming down chest-lid. Done while victim is looking into the chest. 3 variants
Resuscitation by arrangement of members. Parts of a dismembered corpse are brought together and resuscitation follows. (Sometimes combined with other methods.) 1 variant
Reincarnation: boy to bird to boy. Boy returns as bird, who later becomes the boy. 1 variant
Reincarnation of murdered child as bird. 1 variant

Type numbers and names after Aarne–Thompson–Uther, via Hagedorn, trilogy (2022), CC-BY-NC-SA; motif links weighted by the dataset’s recorded tale variants. Served as classification facts with attribution.