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.

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.