μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Resuscitation with head on backwards. (Cf. F511.0.6.)

The dead. · Resuscitation. · Resuscitation by arrangement of members. · view the constellation · filed as E34.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • Italian Novella Rotunda (E12.2).
  • general *Type 303
Within the index

Filed under 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.

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Beheaded man's head replaced crooked

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