μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 7references

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
  • ChineseWerner 93, 268
  • HawaiiDixon 76, Beckwith Myth 145, 152
  • MaoriDixon 78
  • MarquesasHandy 113
  • Eskimo (Greenland)Rasmussen II 101.
  • general Crane Miraculis 84 No. 7
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 returning dead person's soul (breath) to body
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 from fragments of bodyResuscitation by assembling members and leaving in cask for certain timeResuscitation from excrement of one who has eaten person (animal)Resuscitation from ashes of dead man

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