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 — Mythoi

Motif

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.

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

Attested across traditions

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

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross
Italian Novella Rotunda
India *Thompson-Balys
N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 309 n. 114c.
general *Kittredge Gawain 155 n. 1
general *Wesselski Märchen 239, 241 n. 2

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

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

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

Beheading bargain. Giant allows hero to cut off his head; he will cut off hero's later

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.)

Carried in tale types

Changing Heads (previously Changing Heads with the Devil) · ATU 1169 1 recorded variant
St · ATU 774A 1 recorded variant

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