Resuscitation by arrangement of members. Parts of a dismembered corpse are brought together and resuscitation follows. (Sometimes combined with other methods.) — Mythoi

Motif

Resuscitation by arrangement of members. Parts of a dismembered corpse are brought together and resuscitation follows. (Sometimes combined with other methods.)

The dead. · Resuscitation. · Resuscitation by arrangement of members. · view the constellation · filed as E30

Attested across traditions

North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 39 receipt

Filed across the traditions

Breton Sébillot Incidents s. v. "os"
Italian Basile Pentamerone I No. 2
Swiss Jegerlehner Oberwallis 315 No. 119, 329 No. 38
Egyptian Müller 114 (Osiris)
Greek Fox 22 (Arkas)
Siberian Holmberg Siberian 494
India *Thompson-Balys
Marquesas Handy 104
Tuamotu Stimson MS (z-G. 3/1117)
Eskimo (Greenland) Rink 276
N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 308 n. 114, (California): Gayton and Newman 71, Hatt Asiatic Influences 69f.
S. Am. Indian (Yuracare) Alexander Lat. Am. 315, Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 503. – Africa (Fjort): Dennett 64 No. 12, (Angola): Chatelain 95 No. 5, (Bushman): Bleek and Lloyd 33, 137, (Ibo of Nigeria): Thomas 160, (Basuto): Jacottet 132 No. 18, 168 No. 24, (Thonga): Junod 242, (Zulu): Callaway 51, 230
Cape Verde Islands Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 141.
general *Type 720
general *BP I 422f.
general Köhler-Bolte I 140, 555
general Gaster Thespis 300. Finnish: Kalevala rune 15 → on our shelf: The Kalevala, Rune XV

Within the index

10 finer motifs beneath it

Felled tree restored by reassembling all cut parts. (Cf. E2.) Limbs of dead voluntarily reassemble and revive Resuscitated eaten animal. (Cf. E171.) An animal is eaten. When his bones are reassembled he revives Resuscitation with missing member. In reassembling the members, one has been inadvertently omitted. The resuscitated person or animal lacks this member Resuscitation with misplaced head. (Cf. M221.) In restoration of several persons simultaneously through reassembling of members, the heads are placed on the wrong bodies. Sometimes the damage is repaired, sometimes not Resuscitation from fragments of body Resuscitation by assembling members and leaving in cask for certain time Resuscitation by replacement of soul Resuscitation from excrement of one who has eaten person (animal) Resuscitation from ashes of dead man

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Resuscitation by dismemberment. (Cf. E30, E32.) (Usually combined with burning; cf. E15.) Bones of dismembered person assembled and buried. (Cf. E30.)

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Sun father-in-law Animal bribed with food. (Sop to Cerberus.) Helpful bee Bee fetches balm from heaven to restore hero's speech Animal as guard of person or house Guardian animals evaded Transformation: man to feather Protean beggar: Person assumes successive forms in order to beg Transformation combat. Fight between contestants who strive to outdo each other in successive transformations Transformation to reach difficult place Transformation to escape difficult situation Transformation to receive food

Carried in tale types

The Juniper Tree (previously My Mother Slew Me; My Father Ate Me) · ATU 720 1 recorded variant

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