μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Slain warriors revive nightly. Continue fighting the next day.

The dead. · Resuscitation. · Circumstances of resuscitation. · view the constellation · filed as E155.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross, Beal IV 342, 454, V 210
  • Icelandic De la Saussaye 176, Fb "kamp", Panzer Hilde-Gudrun 327ff., Herrmann Saxo II 364, *Boberg
  • Hindu Tawney 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 replaced Soldiers 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 on Person dead during day, revived at night Slain pigs revive nightly King eaten every morning: revived daily

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