μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • Cook IslandsBeckwith 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 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 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 notResuscitation 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

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