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Motif

Death thought sleep. Resuscitated person thinks he has been sleeping. He exclaims, "How long I have been asleep!"

The dead. · Resuscitation. · Circumstances of resuscitation. · view the constellation · filed as E175

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“One day the boy said, “Father, make me two bows and the arrows for them.”’ His father asked him why he wanted two bows. The boy said, “I want them to change about.” His father made them for him, but surmised the boy had other reasons, and concluded he would watch the boy, and on one day, earlier than usual, he left his tipi and hid upon a hill overlooking his tipi, and while there, he saw two boys of about the same age shooting arrows.”

Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 44 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
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.

  • PhilippineDixon 235
  • N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 319 n. 154, (Calif.): Gayton and Newman 57
  • S. Am. Indian (Yuracare)Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 502.
  • general *Köhler-Bolte 555
  • general Wesselski Märchen 192. India: *Thompson-Balys
Within the index

Filed under Circumstances of resuscitation.

Filed beside it
Repeated resuscitation. A person dies and is resuscitated repeatedlyBody 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 reviveResuscitation in order to baptizeResuscitated man relates visions of beyond. (Cf. E480, V511.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Resuscitation my frightening dead. Frequently combined with E61Resuscitation by musicResuscitation by breathing on corpseDoor (gate) entrance to lower worldSwallowed person becomes baldCliff-ogre. Kicks victims over cliffRectum snakes. Snakes which creep into living man and devour himPot-tilter. Ogre who tilts a pot so that victims are drawn into itSucking monster. Giant (sometimes a giant hall or cave) sucks in victimsMan with fire moccasins. They set fire to surroundingsKilling trees threaten heroPlace and conditions of childbirth

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