μῦθοι 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

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“Then they exchanged arrows, the Sun giving him four arrows of his own. The points of these arrows were made of coal." Now the young man began to climb the mountain. When he came up to the goats, he took one of the arrows, aimed it, and shot. It struck the animals, but fell down without killing it. The same happened with the other arrows. When he had spent all his arrows, they rushed up to him from the four sides, intending to kill him.”

— Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 39 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
Scholars’ trail — 6references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • Irish myth*Cross
  • Italian NovellaRotunda
  • 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 reviveResuscitated eaten animal. (Cf. E171.) An animal is eaten. When his bones are reassembled he revivesResuscitation with missing member. In reassembling the members, one has been inadvertently omitted. The resuscitated person or animal lacks this memberResuscitation from fragments of bodyResuscitation by assembling members and leaving in cask for certain timeResuscitation by replacement of soulResuscitation from excrement of one who has eaten person (animal)Resuscitation from ashes of dead man
Travels with
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-lawAnimal bribed with food. (Sop to Cerberus.)Animal as guard of person or houseGuardian animals evadedTransformation: man to featherProtean beggar: Person assumes successive forms in order to begTransformation combat. Fight between contestants who strive to outdo each other in successive transformationsTransformation to reach difficult placeTransformation to escape difficult situationTransformation to receive foodBurning 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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