μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 7references

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.

  • IcelandicBoberg
  • IndiaThompson-Balys. – N. Am. Indian (Micmac): Rand 296 No. 51, (Chilcotin): Farrand JE II 22 No. 8, (Yuki): Kroeber UCal IV 185, (Osage): Dorsey FM VII 43 No. 36, (Navaho): Matthews MAFLS V 93
  • Eskimo (Greenland)Rink 298f., 463
  • Africa (Hottentot)Bleek 75 No. 36.
  • general *Zwierzina Legenden der Märtyrer vom unzerstörbaren Leben. (Innsbrucker Festgruss dargebracht der 50. Versammlung deutscher Philologen in Graz). Irish myth: *Cross
  • general Georgian: Wardrop Georgian Folk-Tales (London, 1894) 59 No. 10
  • general S. Am. Indian (Ackawoi): Alexander Lat. Am. 270
Within the index

Filed under Circumstances of resuscitation.

Filed beside it
Body still warm restored to lifePeriodic resuscitation. (Cf. D620.) Return to life at regular intervalsGradual resuscitation – one organ at a timeKilled game revives and flies awayResuscitation impossible after certain length of timeMan kept alive by consecrated sword. (Cf. D1081, E765.3.0.1.)[First Edition: E164. Dead body caused to speak by setting door ajar.]Resuscitation of wife by husband giving up half his remaining life. (Sometimes vice versa)Return from dead granted for definite timeMan given ability to return to life if killedCooked animal comes to life. (Cf. E155.5.)Flayed animal resuscitatedBones wrapped in sheepskin inscribed with holy name reviveDeath thought sleep. Resuscitated person thinks he has been sleeping. He exclaims, "How long I have been asleep!"Resuscitation in order to baptizeResuscitated man relates visions of beyond. (Cf. E480, V511.)

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