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Motif

Resuscitation my frightening dead. Frequently combined with E61.

The dead. · Resuscitation. · Resuscitation by rough treatment. · view the constellation · filed as E25

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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 — 1reference

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.

  • N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 319 n. 153. See also references to E61.
Within the index

Filed under Resuscitation by rough treatment.

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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 withdrawal of wounding instrumentResuscitation by catching in snareResuscitation by shouting at deadResuscitation by slinging against somethingResuscitation by rough treatment – miscellaneous
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Resuscitation by musicResuscitation by breathing on corpseDeath thought sleep. Resuscitated person thinks he has been sleeping. He exclaims, "How long I have been asleep!"Door (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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