μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 21references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • GreekGrote I 206
  • ItalianBasile Pentamerone IV No. 9, Rotunda
  • BretonSébillot Incidents s. v. "resurrection"
  • IrishPlummer xxxv, *Cross
  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • Jewish*Neuman
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • ChineseEberhard FFC CXX 169
  • KoreanZong in-Sob 139
  • Polynesia*Beckwith Myth Chapter X passim
  • MarquesasHandy 83
  • TuamotuStimson 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 lifeDead tree comes to lifeDead animal comes to life. (Cf. B192.1.)Sun revived by own power after being killed by moon
Travels with
Witch revives dead. (Cf. E0.)Reward for resuscitating dead. (Cf. E0.)

wander