Limbs of dead voluntarily reassemble and revive — Mythoi

Motif

Limbs of dead voluntarily reassemble and revive.

The dead. · Resuscitation. · Resuscitation by arrangement of members. · view the constellation · filed as E31

Filed across the traditions

Jewish Neuman
N. Am. Indian (California) Gayton and Newman 92.
general *Köhler-Bolte I 130
general Gaster Thespis 300

Within the index

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

Filed beside it

Felled tree restored by reassembling all cut parts. (Cf. E2.) 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.)

Dismembered corpse reassembles. (Cf. E31.)

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