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Motif

Resuscitation by herbs (leaves).

The dead. · Resuscitation. · Resuscitation by medicines. · view the constellation · filed as E105

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“Unable to refuse, Zeus came to her bridal chamber in a chariot, with lightnings and thunder- ings, and launched a thunderbolt. But Semele expired of fright, and Zeus, snatching the sixth- month abortive child? from the fire, sewed it in his thigh. On the death of Semele the other daughters of Cadmus spread a report that Semele had bedded with a mortal man, and had falsely accused Zeus, and that therefore she had been blasted by thunder.”

— The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. IV · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

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Scholars’ trail — 13references

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.

  • GreekFrazer Apollodorus I 312 n. 2 → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. IV
  • JewishNeuman
  • ItalianBasile Pentamerone I No. 7, V No. 7, Rotunda
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • PhilippineFansler MAFLS XII 135
  • Africa (Ekoi)Talbot 7, (Thonga): Junod 56.
  • general Type 612
  • general BP I 126ff., *128
  • general *Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XX 354 n. 2
  • general *Kittredge Gawain 153 n. 4
  • general *Wesselski Märchen 239f. No. 50
  • general Jacobs' list s. v. "Life-restoring herb"
  • general Penzer VI 18 n. 1. Irish myth: *Cross
Within the index

Filed under Resuscitation by medicines.

Filed beside it
Resuscitation by salve (oil). (Cf. D1244.)Resuscitation by magic liquid. (Cf. D1242.)[First Edition: E104. Resuscitation by magic plant.][First Edition: E104.1. Resuscitation by magic root.]Resuscitation by magic appleResuscitation by magic pill. (Cf. D1243.)Resuscitation by magic powderResuscitation by bloodResuscitation by spittle. (Cf. D1001.)Resuscitation by wax from deer's earResuscitation by use of animal fatResuscitation by gall of slain giant
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Origin of HyadesMen created from sown dragon's teethCity founded on spot where cow lies downTransformation: man to kidTransformation to seduceMagic plantPower of prophecy a giftPower of prophecy lost by spitting. When possessor of power on request spits into mouth of man who has taught him, he loses the powerMissile thrown among enemies causes them to fight one anotherPunishment: transformation to deer which is devoured by dogsBoiling to death. Often in pitch or oilChild incubated in man's thigh
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