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Stith Thompson Motif Index
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Stith Thompson's Motif-Index of Folk-Literature classifies recurring narrative elements in folktales, myths, legends, ballads and related traditional narratives. Each entry below gives Thompson's motif reference and the description recorded in the index.
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Mythological Motifs
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Animal Motifs
C
Motifs of Tabu
D
Magic
E
The Dead
F
Marvels
G
Ogres
H
Tests
J
The Wise and the Foolish
K
Deceptions
L
Reversals of Fortune
M
Ordaining the Future
N
Chance and Fate
P
Society
Q
Rewards and Punishments
R
Captives and Fugitives
S
Unnatural Cruelty
T
Sex
U
The Nature of Life
V
Religion
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Traits of Character
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Humor
Z
Miscellaneous Groups of Motifs
| Thompson reference | Description ▲ |
|---|---|
| E722.2 | Manner of soul's leaving body. Jewish: Neuman. |
| E721.0.1 | Mark inflicted on wandering soul seen on body after soul's return. Irish myth: Cross. |
| E495.2 | Marriage (ceremony) to a ghost. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| E492 | Mass (church service) of the dead. Held at midnight. *BP III 472, 545; Krappe Balor 116ff., 121 n. 11, JAFL LX 159ff.; *Fb "død" I 228a, "kirke" II 125b; *Grunwald Hessische Blätter f. Vksk. XXX—XXXI 316; Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn II (1895) 280ff., (1928) 176ff.; Norwegian: Solheim Register 17; Icelandic: Boberg; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3558; Jewish: *Neuman; New York: Jones JAFL LVII 242. |
| E692.2 | Mean person reborn as hyena. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E181 | Means of resuscitation learned. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E149 | Means of resuscitation—miscellaneous. |
| E265.3 | Meeting ghost causes death. (Cf. E574.) England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E265 | Meeting ghost causes misfortune. Fb "spøgelse" III 519b. |
| E265.2 | Meeting ghost causes person to go mad. (Cf. D2065.) Ireland, U.S.: Baughman. |
| E265.1 | Meeting ghost causes sickness. (Cf. D2064.) |
| E499 | Meetings of the dead—miscellaneous. |
| E490 | Meetings of the dead. |
| E480.3 | Men must enter spirit world armed. S. A. Indian (Brazil): Oberg 110. |
| E656.1 | Men who behave irrationally (without plans) reincarnations of animals. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E607 | Methods of reincarnation. |
| E336.2 | Mine ghosts annoy miners. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E540 | Miscellaneous actions of revenants. |
| E299 | Miscellaneous acts of malevolent ghosts. |
| E402.1.8 | Miscellaneous sounds made by ghost of human being. Canada, England, U.S., Wales: *Baughman. |
| E451.5.1 | Money must be distributed to beggars so that ghost may be laid. Lithuanian: Balys Ghosts. |
| E373.1 | Money received from ghosts as reward for bravery. A voice says: "I am letting it fall." The man: "Let it." Money falls to the ground. *Chauvin V 78 No. 22 n. 1; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 123 No. 46; cf. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 24 No. 216; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3626; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E411.7 | Monk who dies without his cowl cannot rest in grave. Alphabet No. 501. |
| E714.8 | Monster with life in his neck. (One vulnerable place.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E481.8.2 | Moon as land of dead. Samoa: Clark 181. |
| E222.0.1 | Mother haunts daughter. England: Baughman. |
| E412.2.2 | Mother of unbaptized child cannot rest in grave. U.S.: Baughman. |
| E323.6 | Mother returns to encourage daughter in great difficulties. England: Baughman. |
| E323.5 | Mother returns to search for dead child. England, Ireland: *Baughman. |
| E765.4.2 | Mother will die when daughter is wooed. Irish myth: Cross. |
| E222.1 | Mother's ghost tries to tear daughter to pieces. English: Child V 303b. |
| E433.1 | Mould put on table for the dead. Fb "muld" II 619a. |
| E431.3 | Mould thrown on corpse to prevent return. Fb "muld" II 619a. |
| E718 | Multiple separable souls: ogre's separable spirits live in a tree (plant), fish, honey bee. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E337.1.1 | Murder sounds heard just as they must have happened at time of death. England, U.S., Wales: *Baughman. |
| E413 | Murdered person cannot rest in grave. (See all references to E231, E334, E337.1.1, E337.3.) *Fb "spøgelse" III 521a, "gjenganger" I 443b; Jellinek Zs. f. Vksk. XIV 323; Tobler 47; England, Wales, U.S.: *Baughman; North Carolina: Brown Collection I 682; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 5 Nos. 37—38; Kristensen Danske Sagn V (1897) 102ff., 334ff., (1934) 78ff., 252ff. |
| E411.1 | Murderer cannot rest in grave. *Type 760; Jellinek Zs. f. Vksk. XIV 323; Fb "gjenganger" I 443b, "lig" II 412b; Tobler 83, 90.—Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 4 No. 32; England, U.S.: *Baughman; North Carolina: Brown Collection I 678; Greek: Aeschylus Eumenides 100. |
| E402 | Mysterious ghostlike noises heard. (Song, animal cries, footsteps, etc.) (Cf. E337.1, E236.7.) Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 24 Nos. 211—214; New York: Jones JAFL LVII 250; England: *Baughman. |
| E412.3.2 | Naked ghost asks for shirt and promises luck on market for man. Lithuanian: Balys Ghosts. |
| E501.5.1.1 | Naked woman pursued and cut in two by rider. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 228; *Herbert III 134. |
| E700.1 | Names given the soul. Jewish: Neuman. |
| E741.1.1.1 | New star for each birth. A star in the sky for each person. Fb "menneske" II 577b. |
| E155.3 | Nightly resuscitation of man with external soul. When enemy takes off necklace containing the soul he revives, but dies again when it is put on. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E501.1.2 | Nobleman as wild huntsman. Schweda 38; Fb "Odins jæger" II 731b. |
| E231.4 | Noise of chains leads to buried ghost. (Cf. E402.1.4.) England: Baughman. |
| E402.1 | Noises caused by ghost of person. |
| E333 | Non-malevolent churchyard ghost. (Cf. E273.) England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E338 | Non-malevolent ghost haunts building. See E281, E402. England, Ireland, Scotland, U.S., Wales: *Baughman. |
| E338.2 | Non-malevolent ghost haunts church. (Cf. E283.) England: *Baughman. |
| E338.3 | Non-malevolent ghost haunts cloister. England: Baughman. |
| E338.1 | Non-malevolent ghost haunts house or castle. England, Scotland, U.S., Wales: *Baughman. |
| E334 | Non-malevolent ghost haunts scene of former misfortune, crime, or tragedy. (See E336, E337, E338, E339.) England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E336 | Non-malevolent mine ghosts. (Cf. E275.1, E334.5.1, F456.) |
| E332 | Non-malevolent road ghosts. (Cf. E272, E581, E582.) |
| E766 | Object dies or stops when owner dies. |
| E501.5 | Object of wild hunt's pursuit. |
| E501.10 | Objects as part of wild hunt. |
| E474.1 | Offspring of living and dead person. (Cf. E322.1, T540.) *Fb "barn" IV 27a; Tupper and Ogle Walter Map 98; Irish myth: Cross. |
| E715.1.3.2 | Ogre with life in parrot, speaks from inside parrot. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E715.1.3.1 | Ogre's life in parrot's feather in man's pocket. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E714.10 | Ogre's soul in "pale spot" below his right ear. (Cf. Z311.2.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| E481.1.1 | Old woman ruler of dead in lower world. (Cf. A481.9.) Finnish: Holmberg Finno-Ugric 75. |
| E721.6 | On return to body soul crosses on scythe-blade as bridge. *Fb "høle" I 747a; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| E165.1 | One man prays either to keep friend from death or for both to die. Both allowed to live. Jewish: bin Gorion II 171f., 349. |
| E765.5 | One person's life dependent on another's. Penzer I 131. |
| E501.4.3.1 | One-eyed sow in wild hunt. Plischke 31. |
| E421.1.1.2 | Only sorcerers can see ghosts. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 181. |
| E499.2 | Orchestra of ghosts. U.S.: Baughman. |
| E789.1 | Organs exchanged with those of animal. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E783.2.1 | Origin of Pegasus from neck of slain Medusa. Greek: Fox 34. |
| E600.1 | Origin of reincarnation: miscarried message of immortality. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E599 | Other actions of revenants. |
| E411.0.5 | Other dead drive sinner from graveyard. Fb "lig" II 412b. |
| E755.4 | Other destinations of souls. |
| E459 | Other exorcism practices. |
| E740 | Other forms of the soul. |
| E539 | Other ghostly objects. |
| E260 | Other malevolent revenants. |
| E120 | Other means of resuscitation. |
| E386 | Other means of summoning ghost. |
| E439 | Other protection against revenants. |
| E360 | Other reasons for friendly return from the dead. |
| E419 | Other restless dead. England: Baughman. |
| E539.1 | Oven door jumps into room; money thought to be under spot where it lands. England: Baughman. |
| E501.4.5 | Owl (ghost of nun) in wild hunt. Plischke 34. |
| E545.20 | Part of ghost speaks. |
| E501.2 | Participants in wild hunt. |
| E431.15 | People touch corpse before burial to avoid seeing ghost of dead person after burial. England: *Baughman. |
| E419.11 | People who bury metal cannot rest in grave. England, Wales: *Baughman. |
| E750.2 | Perilous path for soul to world of dead. (Cf. F151.1.) Siberian: Holmberg Siberian 484. |
| E750.2.2 | Perilous valley in (on way to) land of dead. Irish myth: Cross. |
| E750 | Perils of the soul. *Frazer Golden Bough III 26ff.; Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian: Hultkrantz 464—480. |
| E155 | Periodic resuscitation. (Cf. D620.) Return to life at regular intervals. *Cosquin Contes indiens 18ff.; Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E411.3 | Perjurer cannot rest in grave. *Fb "sværge" III 692b, 693a. |
| E291.1 | Person burying treasure kills person to supply guardian ghost. U.S.: Baughman. |
| E1 | Person comes to life. Alphabet No. 683; Köhler-Bolte II 164; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3506; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Tonga: Gifford 130; Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 180 No. 25, (Zulu): Callaway 51. |
| E155.4 | Person dead during day, revived at night. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| E607.2.1 | Person is swallowed and then reborn. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E332.2 | Person meets ghost on road. Canada, England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E414.1 | Person otherwise killed by accident cannot rest in grave. Icelandic: *Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E723.1.1 | Person sees his own wraith; the wraith saves his life. (Cf. E363.2.) England: Baughman. |
| E723.1 | Person sees his own wraith. U.S., Wales: *Baughman. |
| E765.3.1 | Person to live as long as church stands. Fb "kirke" II 126a, "leve" II 401b. |
| E607.2 | Person transforms self, is swallowed and reborn in new form. (Cf. D605.7, D610.) Irish myth: *Cross; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 110; India: Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian: Thompson Tales 282 n. 44. |
| E412 | Person under religious ban cannot rest in grave. |
| E367.1 | Person who has spent two years in hell speaks of importance of religious experience. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| E411.6 | Person who never said "good morning" cannot rest in grave. Tobler 64. |
| E765.4.5 | Person will die when he drinks from horn. (Cf. D1793.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| E765.4.4 | Person will die year he marries. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| E419.7 | Person with missing bodily member cannot rest in grave. (Cf. E235.) U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E707 | Person with more than one soul. Jewish: Neuman. |
| E501.7 | Personal appearance of wild huntsmen. |
| E421.1.1.1 | Persons born at midnight can see ghosts. England: *Baughman. |
| E411.10 | Persons who die violent or accidental deaths cannot rest in grave. See all references to E334ff., especially E334.5, E411.1, E411.1.1, E413, E414. U.S.: Baughman. |
| E535.3.2 | Phantom boat. Tahiti: Henry 91. |
| E535.3.1 | Phantom canoe. New York: Jones JAFL LVII 244. |
| E512 | Phantom cart driver wanders because of blasphemy. "Peter Rugg the Missing Man." Boasts that he will reach home despite storm or never see his home again. He always travels in hard shower of rain or just ahead of one. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E535.1 | Phantom coach and horses. England, Ireland, U.S., Wales: *Baughman. |
| E500 | Phantom hosts. |
| E535.4 | Phantom railway train. U.S.: *Baughman; Jones JAFL LVII 241, 244. |
| E510 | Phantom sailors and travelers. |
| E534 | Phantom spinning-wheel makes noise. North Carolina: Brown Collection I 678. |
| E501.13 | Phenomena at appearance of wild hunt. |
| E501.16 | Phenomena at disappearance of wild hunt. |
| E411.8 | Pilate appears periodically at Mt. Pilatus and washes his hands. *Hauffen Zs. f. Vksk. X 435. |
| E431.12 | Pins stuck in soles of dead man's feet to prevent return. Fb "død" I 228a. |
| E501.12 | Place of appearance of wild hunt. |
| E631.0.3 | Plant from blood of slain person. *Fb "blod" IV 49a, "juletræ", II 57a; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 311 No. 41; Greek: Fox 198, 201; India: *Thompson-Balys; Africa: Frobenius Atlantis IV 225f. |
| E599.10 | Playful revenant. England: Baughman. |
| E577.2.1 | Playing cards with a dead man (ghost). Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 678ff. |
| E371.3 | Poet sings day after his death. (Cf. E342, E546.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| E433.2 | Possessions buried with dead. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E766.3 | Post falls when owners lose estate. England: Baughman. |
| E539.2 | Pot jumps in house to indicate money hidden underneath it. England: Baughman. |
| E499.3 | Pot so heavy with ghosts that girl cannot lift it. (Cf. D1317.10.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E501.17.4.2 | Power of wild hunt evaded by formula. (Cf. D1273.) Schweda 32. |
| E501.17.4.1 | Power of wild hunt evaded by prayer. Schweda 31; Plischke 79. |
| E501.17.4.3 | Power of wild hunt evaded by sacrificing to huntsman's dogs. Fb "kvie" II 338. |
| E501.17.4.4 | Power of wild hunt evaded by silence. Schweda 31; England: Baughman. |
| E431 | Precautions at funeral against revenant. |
| E752.10 | Precautions taken with corpse before burial to prevent evil spirits from getting, using body. (Cf. E431.) |
| E411.2.1 | Priest's concubine cannot rest in grave. Herbert III 380; Wesselski Mönchslatein 163 No. 125. |
| E251.2.2 | Prince plucks from grave of vampire a flower which later becomes a girl. *BP II 126f. |
| E781.1.1 | Prince regains his eyesight after theft of eyes from water maidens. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E491 | Procession of the dead. *BP III 472 n. 1; Fb "gjenganger" I 443b, "Nytеrsaften" II 707b; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 23 No. 204; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 323 Nos. 100, 105, 326 Nos. 15, 17; *Geiger Archives suisses des Traditions Populaires XLVII 71—76; West Indies: Flowers 431; Pochulata: Boas JAFL XXV 226; Spanish: Boas ibid. 251; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| E545.19.2 | Proper means of addressing ghosts. England, U.S., Wales: *Baughman. |
| E501.5.1.2 | Prostitutes pursued in wild hunt. (Cf. E501.2.4.) Plischke 65. |
| E443.0.2 | Protection during ghost-laying ceremony. England: Baughman. |
| E601.3 | Punishments earned on one life paid in next reincarnation. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E368 | Pupil returns from dead to warn master of futility of his studies. *Crane Vitry 145f. No. 31; Alphabet Nos. 151, 700; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| E481.0.2 | Quarrel of dead and living causes removal of dead to own land. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E545.5 | Questions to dead are dangerous. *Fb "død" I 228a; Boberg. |
| E756.3 | Raven and dove fight over man's soul. Type 756B; *Andrejev FFC LXIX 157f., *249ff.; Hdwb. d. Märchen I 356a. s.v. "Busse des Räubers"; England, Wales: Baughman. |
| E752.3 | Raven carries off souls of damned. Tobler 31; Fb "ravn" III 22a. |
| E337.2 | Re-enactment of tragedy seen. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E511.1 | Reason for Flying Dutchman's punishment. |
| E606 | Reasons for reincarnation. (Cf. E693.) |
| E387 | Reasons for summoning of ghosts. |
| E607.2.2 | Rebirth by crawling into woman's womb. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 57. |
| E631.0.3.1 | Red plant from blood of slain person. *Fb "blod" IV 49a; BP II 532 n. 2. |
| E12.1 | Red thread on neck of person who has been decapitated and resuscitated. *BP III 19; Hdwb. d. Abergl. I 866. |
| E601.2 | Reincarnated benefactor helped by man he has befriended in former life. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E696 | Reincarnated person restored to original form. |
| E611.2.4 | Reincarnation as a buffalo. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 592; Chinese: Graham (E612.11). |
| E631.2.1 | Reincarnation as a grass straw. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen I 115. |
| E615 | Reincarnation as amphibian. |
| E611.2.2 | Reincarnation as an ox. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1124. |
| E629 | Reincarnation as animal—miscellaneous. |
| E610 | Reincarnation as animal. Encyc. Rel. and Ethics I 493b; Irish myth: Cross; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "animaux"; Jewish: bin Gorion VI 110, 310; Africa: Werner African 192. |
| E636.1 | Reincarnation as bag of water. Irish myth: Cross (E636). |
| E637 | Reincarnation as ball (of gold and iron). India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E612.8 | Reincarnation as bear. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E616.5 | Reincarnation as bedbug. (Cf. E693.2.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E616.1 | Reincarnation as bee. (Cf. D182.) Fb "sjæl" III 214a. |
| E613 | Reincarnation as bird. Fb "sjæl" III 214a; Gjerdman Nattskärran och nogra andra Spökfеglar (Arv I 27—68); Estonian: Loorits Grundzüge I 347—363; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 870, II 17; Japanese: Ikeda; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 264ff, Graham; Aztec: Alexander Lat. Am. 61. |
| E611.2.1 | Reincarnation as bull. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 166, II 29. |
| E611.2.1.1 | Reincarnation as bullock. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| E616.2 | Reincarnation as butterfly. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 266. |
| E611.2.3 | Reincarnation as calf. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 54, 189. |
| E605.7.1 | Reincarnation as child which is within a fish. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E631.1.4 | Reincarnation as cockscomb. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E694 | Reincarnation as compensation. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E605.9 | Reincarnation as conjurer. Eskimo (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 234, 247, (Greenland): Rasmussen III 130. |
| E611.2 | Reincarnation as cow. (Cf. D133.1.) *Type 510, 511; BP *I 187, III 61ff.; Wesselski Deutsche Märchen vor Grimm (1938) vii ff.; *MacCulloch Childhood 108; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| E629.2 | Reincarnation as crab. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 267. |
| E613.9.1 | Reincarnation as crane. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1182. |
| E614.3 | Reincarnation as crocodile. India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 365, 479, II 555. |
| E613.5 | Reincarnation as cuckoo. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3134, Legends Nos. 248ff.; Livonian: Loorits FFC LXVI 89 No. 77. |
| E649.5 | Reincarnation as currants. Eyes made into currants. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| E612.5 | Reincarnation as deer. Irish myth: *Cross; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 421, II 27f., 69. |
| E633 | Reincarnation as dish. Bones made into dish. These speak. (Cf. E632.) English: Child I 126; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| E611 | Reincarnation as domestic animal. |
| E611.1.2 | Reincarnation as donkey. India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 131. |
| E613.6 | Reincarnation as dove. Italian: Basile Pentamerone V 9. |
| E613.1 | Reincarnation as duck. Tobler 53; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 453*; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 264. |
| E613.3.1 | Reincarnation as eagle. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E631.5.3 | Reincarnation as eggplant. Africa (Luba): LeClerq Zs. f. Kolonialsprachen IV 226f. |
| E612.11 | Reincarnation as elephant. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 157, II 603, 1158. |
| E617 | Reincarnation as fish. (Cf. D170, E713.1.) Irish myth: Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 999, 1148, II 691. |
| E616.3 | Reincarnation as flea. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E649.2 | Reincarnation as flour vat. Stomach made into flour vat. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| E635 | Reincarnation as fountain. Fb "kilde" II 119b; Child V 287a. |
| E612.4 | Reincarnation as fox. (Cf. D113.3.) *Type 506; BP III 494ff.; Fb "sjæl" III 214a. |
| E615.1 | Reincarnation as frog. (Cf. D195.) Tobler 28; Fb "sjæl" III 214a; India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1322. |
| E617.2 | Reincarnation as goldfish. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E613.10 | Reincarnation as goose. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 267, II 1264. |
| E612.3 | Reincarnation as hare. Fb "sjæl" III 214a; Gaster Exempla 248 No. 349; Eskimo (Central Eskimo): Boas RBAE VI 639. |
| E613.3 | Reincarnation as hawk. (Cf. D152.1.) Tobler 97; Irish myth: Cross. |
| E613.9 | Reincarnation as heron. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E649.1 | Reincarnation as hill. Head made into hill. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| E649.3.1 | Reincarnation as hoe-handle. Back made into hoe-handle. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| E649.3 | Reincarnation as hoe. Feet made into hoe. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| E611.1 | Reincarnation as horse. (Cf. D131.) Gaster Exempla 248 No. 349; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 851. |
| E612.9 | Reincarnation as hyena. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E614.5 | Reincarnation as iguana. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 267. |
| E616 | Reincarnation as insect. Estonian: Loorits Grundzüge I 331ff.; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| E612.10 | Reincarnation as jackal. India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera 267, 1034, 1131. |
| E618.1 | Reincarnation as leech. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E612.1 | Reincarnation as lion. Hindu: Keith 121 (Vishnu). |
| E614.2 | Reincarnation as lizard. India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 813; Tonga: Gifford 108. |
| E631.1.3 | Reincarnation as lotus. India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 527. |
| E646 | Reincarnation as meteor. S. A. Indian (Gran Chaco): Belaieff BBAE CXLIII (1) 380. |
| E645 | Reincarnation as mineral. |
| E612.7 | Reincarnation as mongoose. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E612.12 | Reincarnation as monkey. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 996, II 27, 471, 519, 847, 939. |
| E632 | Reincarnation as musical instrument. The Singing Bone. A musical instrument made from the bones of a murdered person, or from a tree growing from the grave, speaks and tells of the crime. *Type 780; **Mackensen FFC XLIX; BP I 260, II 532; *Fb "streng" III 603a, "harpe" I 559b, IV 201b, "ben" IV 32b; Child I 121—135, 494, IV 449; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "os"; India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| E649.4 | Reincarnation as mussel shell. Ears made into mussel shell. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| E612.14 | Reincarnation as otter. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 267. |
| E613.2 | Reincarnation as owl. Tobler 97; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E613.12 | Reincarnation as parrot. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 266, 578, II 247, 572, 730f., 1122, 1173. |
| E613.8.1 | Reincarnation as partridge. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 226. |
| E613.11 | Reincarnation as peacock. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 1052, II 671. |
| E631.5.2 | Reincarnation as peanut plant. S. A. Indian (Yuracare): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 503. |
| E613.6.1 | Reincarnation as pigeon. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 520, 557. |
| E631.5 | Reincarnation as plant. |
| E606.1 | Reincarnation as punishment for sin. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| E692 | Reincarnation as punishment. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E613.8 | Reincarnation as quail. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 816, 986, 1065. |
| E644 | Reincarnation as rainbow. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E612.13 | Reincarnation as rat. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 290, 1885. |
| E613.7 | Reincarnation as raven. England: *Baughman. |
| E614 | Reincarnation as reptile. |
| E617.1 | Reincarnation as salmon. (Cf. B124.1, D176.) Irish myth: *Cross; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen I 115, II 15. |
| E642.0.1 | Reincarnation as salt. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E629.1 | Reincarnation as scorpion. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E612.6 | Reincarnation as seal. (Cf. D127.1.) Irish myth: Cross; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen I 115, III 56. |
| E617.3 | Reincarnation as shark. Solomon Islands: Beckwith Myth 13. |
| E613.1.1 | Reincarnation as sheldrake. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E643 | Reincarnation as smoke. |
| E614.1 | Reincarnation as snake. (Cf. D191.) Fb "sjæl" III 214a; Estonian: Loorits Grundzüge I 339ff.; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 857; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 166f. |
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