μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Greek Grote I 206
  • Italian Basile Pentamerone IV No. 9, Rotunda
  • Breton Sébillot Incidents s. v. "resurrection"
  • Irish Plummer xxxv, *Cross
  • Icelandic *Boberg
  • Jewish *Neuman
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Chinese Eberhard FFC CXX 169
  • Korean Zong in-Sob 139
  • Polynesia *Beckwith Myth Chapter X passim
  • Marquesas Handy 83
  • Tuamotu Stimson MS (z-G. 13/127)
  • Eskimo (Greenland) Rink 291, 359, 373, 417, 444, 452, Holm 26, 89, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 241
  • N. Am. Indian (California) Gayton and Newman 73
  • S. Am. Indian (Toba) Métraux MAFLS XL 102, (Tupinamba): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 132, (Apapocuva-Guaraní): *Métraux RMLP XXXIII 133
  • Africa (Benga) Nassau 213 No. 33, (Upoto): Einstein 142, (Wuchaga): Gutman 35.
  • general Zwierzina Die Legenden der Märtyrer vom unzerstörbaren Leben (Innsbrucker Festgruss dargebracht der 50. Versammlung deutscher Philologen in Graz (1909) 130–158
  • general Type 516
  • general Clouston Tales II 407ff.
  • general *Penzer X Index s. v. "Resuscitation"
  • general *Jacobs' list s. v. "Resuscitation"
Within the index
4 finer motifs beneath it
Person comes to life Dead tree comes to life Dead animal comes to life. (Cf. B192.1.) Sun revived by own power after being killed by moon
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Witch revives dead. (Cf. E0.) Reward for resuscitating dead. (Cf. E0.)

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