Resuscitation from fragments of body — Mythoi

Motif

Resuscitation from fragments of body.

The dead. · Resuscitation. · Resuscitation by arrangement of members. · view the constellation · filed as E35

Filed across the traditions

Cook Islands Beckwith 253
S. Am. Indian (Eastern Brazil) Lowie BBAE CXLIII (1) 434.

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 by sewing parts of body together

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 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 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

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