μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

  • ItalianBasile Pentamerone II No. 8
  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • Eskimo (Kodiak)Golder JAFL XXI 18.
  • general N. Am. Indian (Twana): Curtis N. Am. Indian IX 164 ff., (Southern Paiute): Lowie JAFL XXXVII 185 No. 19
Within the index

Filed under Resuscitation by rough treatment.

5 finer motifs beneath it
Resuscitation by removal of poisoned apple. By shaking loose the apple from the throat of the poisoned girl the prince brings her to lifeResuscitation when strangling corset-lace breaks. Girl laced so tightly in corset that she faints. Brothers carry her to her grave. They stumble. Corset-lace breaks and girl revivesResuscitation by removal of poisoned combResuscitation by removal of poisoned slippersResuscitation by sucking poison from wound
Filed beside it
Resuscitation by beatingResuscitation by decapitationResuscitation by jumping (stepping) overResuscitation by dismemberment. (Cf. E30, E32.) (Usually combined with burning; cf. E15.)Resuscitation by burningResuscitation by stinging. Corpse is laid on an ant-heapResuscitation by licking corpseResuscitation by ticklingResuscitation by catching in snareResuscitation my frightening dead. Frequently combined with E61Resuscitation by shouting at deadResuscitation by slinging against somethingResuscitation by rough treatment – miscellaneous

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