μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

  • Irish myth*Cross, Beal IV 342, 454, V 210
  • IcelandicDe la Saussaye 176, Fb "kamp", Panzer Hilde-Gudrun 327ff., Herrmann Saxo II 364, *Boberg
  • HinduTawney I 476.
  • general *Krappe Balor 132ff.
  • general Hdwb. d. Abergl. III 546
Within the index

Filed under Periodic resuscitation. (Cf. D620.) Return to life at regular intervals.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Constant replacement of fighters. In contest between gods and demons, latter are constantly slain and replacedSoldiers of magic army constantly revived
Filed beside it
Annual resuscitation of a god. (Cf. A192.1.)Nightly resuscitation of man with external soul. When enemy takes off necklace containing the soul he revives, but dies again when it is put onPerson dead during day, revived at nightSlain pigs revive nightlyKing eaten every morning: revived daily

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