μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Person comes to life.

The dead. · Resuscitation. · Resuscitation. · view the constellation · filed as E1

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“He ad- vised the children to run away, but they did not obey. When they saw the gum, they stepped up to the Snanaik and asked her to give them some. The Snanaik gave a piece of gum to all the children, and when she saw Anutkoats, who was advising the children to return home, she took him and threw him into the basket which she was carrying on her back. Then she took all the other children and threw them on top of him into her basket.”

Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 71 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 8references

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.

  • LithuanianBalys Index No. 3506
  • Italian NovellaRotunda
  • Jewish*Neuman
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • TongaGifford 130
  • Africa (Basuto)Jacottet 180 No. 25, (Zulu): Callaway 51.
  • general Alphabet No. 683
  • general Köhler-Bolte II 164
Within the index

Filed under Resuscitation.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Saint cut into pieces or decapitated comes back to lifeDead man re-enters body and speaks of experience in heaven
Filed beside it
Dead tree comes to lifeDead animal comes to life. (Cf. B192.1.)Sun revived by own power after being killed by moon
Travels with
Dead man tries in vain to come back to life. (Cf. E1.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Person falls into ogre's powerOgre carries victim in bag (basket)Bodies of victims in front of ogre's houseMask mistaken for faceStatue mistaken for living original. (Cf. K1840.)Contest won by magicCaptor's bag filled with animals or objects while captives escapeFalse beauty-doctor. The trickster pretends to make the dupe beautiful. Injures himSham physicianFugitive discovered by reflection in waterShepherdess born of red and blue egg

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