The constellation
D655 Transformation to receive food
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- Resuscitation by arrangement of members. Parts of a dismembered corpse are brought together and resuscitation follows. (Sometimes combined with other methods.) · E30 entry
- Resuscitated eaten animal. (Cf. E171.) An animal is eaten. When his bones are reassembled he revives · E32 entry
- Resuscitation with missing member. In reassembling the members, one has been inadvertently omitted. The resuscitated person or animal lacks this member · E33 entry
- Resuscitation with misplaced head. (Cf. M221.) In restoration of several persons simultaneously through reassembling of members, the heads are placed on the wrong bodies. Sometimes the damage is repaired, sometimes not · E34 entry
- Journey to upper world. Most references for F0 discuss this motif · F10 entry
- Visit to star-world · F15 entry
- Visit to land of the sun · F17 entry
- Toothed private parts. (Cf. F547.3.3.) · F547.1 entry
- Ascent to sky on feather · F61.2 entry
- Path between monsters. Scylla and Charybdis · G333 entry
attested in
- Tales of the North American Indians · Tale 39