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Motif

Resuscitation with missing member. In reassembling the members, one has been inadvertently omitted. The resuscitated person or animal lacks this member.

The dead. · Resuscitation. · Resuscitation by arrangement of members. · view the constellation · filed as E33

Attested across traditions
Filed across the traditions
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • Eskimo (Greenland) Rink 99, Rasmussen I 218, III 79, (Bering Strait): Nelson RBAE XVIII 501, (N. W. Canada): Petitot 84, 226, (Smith Sound): Kroeber JAFL XII 170
  • N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 308 n. 114b
  • S. Am. Indian (Yuracare) Alexander Lat. Am. 314.
  • general *Type 313
  • general MacCulloch Childhood 97ff.
  • general Von Sydow Danske Studier (1910) 65ff., 145ff.
  • general Köhler-Bolte I 259, 273 n. 1, *586. Greek: Fox 119 (Pelops)
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.)

1 finer motif beneath it
Cooked part of white cow is brown after resuscitation
Filed beside 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 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
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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