Resuscitated eaten animal. (Cf. E171.) An animal is eaten. When his bones are reassembled he revives — Mythoi

Motif

Resuscitated eaten animal. (Cf. E171.) An animal is eaten. When his bones are reassembled he revives.

The dead. · Resuscitation. · Resuscitation by arrangement of members. · view the constellation · filed as E32

Attested across traditions

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

Filed across the traditions

English Child I 505b
Swiss Jegerlehner Oberwallis 306 No. 8, 313 No. 93
Jewish bin Gorion III 19, *Neuman
India *Thompson-Balys
Buin Wheeler No. 15
N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 308 n. 114a
Africa (Zulu) Callaway 272, (Thonga): Junod 229, (Basuto): Jacottet 124 No. 17.
general *Von Sydow Tors Färd til Utgård (Danske Studier [1910] 65)
general Type 870B (FFC LXXXIII)
general Krohn Skandinavisk Mythologi 207ff.
general BP I 422f.
general Karjalainen FFC LXIII 14
general Alphabet No. 370
general MacCulloch Childhood 101
general Clouston Tales II 395
general Günter 83 nn. 94–96
general *Loomis White Magic 68, 84f.
general Archiv. f. slavische Philologie XIX 255. – Irish: Plummer cxliii, *Cross, O'Suilleabhain 66, Beal XXI 325

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.)

4 finer motifs beneath it

Eaten person resuscitated Insect swallowed by man comes out alive Animals which devour each other are restored to their original forms by command of a saint Dismembered pigs come alive again if only bones are preserved

Filed beside it

Felled tree restored by reassembling all cut parts. (Cf. E2.) Limbs of dead voluntarily reassemble and revive 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.)

Tabu: breaking bones of eaten animal Resuscitation by dismemberment. (Cf. E30, E32.) (Usually combined with burning; cf. E15.) Flayed animal resuscitated

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Sun father-in-law Animal bribed with food. (Sop to Cerberus.) 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 Burning magically evaded. (Cf. D1656.) Resuscitation by arrangement of members. Parts of a dismembered corpse are brought together and resuscitation follows. (Sometimes combined with other methods.)

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