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Motif

Resuscitation by burning.

The dead. · Resuscitation. · Resuscitation by rough treatment. · view the constellation · filed as E15

Filed across the traditions
  • Breton Sébillot Incidents s. v. "cadavre"
  • Easter Island Métraux Ethnology 68
  • N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 350 n. 260
  • Africa (Basuto) Jacottet 132 No. 18, 136 No. 19.
  • general *Type 753
  • general *BP III 193ff.
  • general DeCock Studien 14
Within the index

Filed under Resuscitation by rough treatment.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Bone of man being burned jumps out of fire Resuscitation by boiling Resuscitation by sweating Resuscitation by stewing
Filed beside it
Resuscitation by beating Resuscitation by decapitation Resuscitation by jumping (stepping) over Resuscitation by dismemberment. (Cf. E30, E32.) (Usually combined with burning; cf. E15.) Resuscitation by stinging. Corpse is laid on an ant-heap Resuscitation by licking corpse Resuscitation by tickling Resuscitation by withdrawal of wounding instrument Resuscitation by catching in snare Resuscitation my frightening dead. Frequently combined with E61 Resuscitation by shouting at dead Resuscitation by slinging against something Resuscitation by rough treatment – miscellaneous
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Disenchantment by throwing into fire. (Cf. E15.)

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