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Motif

Resuscitation by breathing on corpse.

The dead. · Resuscitation. · Resuscitation by magic. · view the constellation · filed as E66

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“One day the boy said, “Father, make me two bows and the arrows for them.”’ His father asked him why he wanted two bows. The boy said, “I want them to change about.” His father made them for him, but surmised the boy had other reasons, and concluded he would watch the boy, and on one day, earlier than usual, he left his tipi and hid upon a hill overlooking his tipi, and while there, he saw two boys of about the same age shooting arrows.”

Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 44 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
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.

  • GreekFox 22
  • Irish myth*Cross
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • MelanesiaCodrington JAI X 272
  • N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 319 n. 153a
  • Eskimo (Greenland)Rink 280, Rasmussen III 124, Holm 68, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 247
  • Africa (Benga)Nassau 213 No. 33.
Within the index

Filed under Resuscitation by magic.

1 finer motif beneath it
Resuscitation of cremated man by blowing on the ashes
Filed beside it
Resuscitation by magic charm. (Cf. D1273.)Resuscitation by fetishResuscitation by musicResuscitation 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 likeResuscitation by prayerResuscitation by magic objectResuscitation by kissResuscitation by talking to corpseApparently dead persons revived when certain thing happens. Proper prince appears, or the likeResuscitation by wishingResuscitation by smelling of mossResuscitation by incantationResuscitation by waving magic objectResuscitation by writing deity's name
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Resuscitation my frightening dead. Frequently combined with E61Resuscitation by musicDeath thought sleep. Resuscitated person thinks he has been sleeping. He exclaims, "How long I have been asleep!"Door (gate) entrance to lower worldSwallowed person becomes baldCliff-ogre. Kicks victims over cliffRectum snakes. Snakes which creep into living man and devour himPot-tilter. Ogre who tilts a pot so that victims are drawn into itSucking monster. Giant (sometimes a giant hall or cave) sucks in victimsMan with fire moccasins. They set fire to surroundingsKilling trees threaten heroPlace and conditions of childbirth

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