μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Repeated resuscitation. A person dies and is resuscitated repeatedly.

The dead. · Resuscitation. · Circumstances of resuscitation. · view the constellation · filed as E151

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic Boberg
  • India Thompson-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 life Periodic resuscitation. (Cf. D620.) Return to life at regular intervals Gradual resuscitation – one organ at a time Killed game revives and flies away Resuscitation impossible after certain length of time Man 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 time Man given ability to return to life if killed Cooked animal comes to life. (Cf. E155.5.) Flayed animal resuscitated Bones wrapped in sheepskin inscribed with holy name revive Death thought sleep. Resuscitated person thinks he has been sleeping. He exclaims, "How long I have been asleep!" Resuscitation in order to baptize Resuscitated man relates visions of beyond. (Cf. E480, V511.)

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