μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Resuscitation by magic charm. (Cf. D1273.)

The dead. · Resuscitation. · Resuscitation by magic. · view the constellation · filed as E52

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • India Thompson-Balys, *Penzer VI 261ff.
  • Eskimo (Greenland) Rasmussen II 348, III 102.
Within the index

Filed under Resuscitation by magic.

Filed beside it
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
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Magic formula (charm)

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