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Motif

Resuscitation by magic.

The dead. · Resuscitation. · Resuscitation by magic. · view the constellation · filed as E50

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross
  • Icelandic *Boberg
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • Hawaii Beckwith Myth 154 and Chapter X passim
  • Tuamotu Stimson MS (T-G 3/49, z-G 3/1353, z-G 13/1241)
  • Eskimo (Bering Strait) Nelson RBAE XVIII 504, (Greenland): Rink 260, Rasmussen III 296, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 193
  • Africa (Cameroon) Rosenhuber 43.
Within the index
18 finer motifs beneath it
Resuscitation by magic charm. (Cf. D1273.) Resuscitation by fetish Resuscitation by music Resuscitation by weeping (tears) Resuscitation by shooting arrow. (Usually combined with E25.) Resuscitation by vigil at tomb. Vigil is for stated time, three weeks and three days, or the like Resuscitation by prayer Resuscitation by magic object Resuscitation by kiss Resuscitation by breathing on corpse Resuscitation by talking to corpse Apparently dead persons revived when certain thing happens. Proper prince appears, or the like Resuscitation by wishing Resuscitation by smelling of moss Resuscitation by incantation Resuscitation by waving magic object Resuscitation by writing deity's name Resuscitation by magic – miscellaneous

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