μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Filed across the traditions
  • Greek Fox 22
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Melanesia Codrington 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.
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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 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 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
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Resuscitation my frightening dead. Frequently combined with E61 Resuscitation by music Death thought sleep. Resuscitated person thinks he has been sleeping. He exclaims, "How long I have been asleep!" Door (gate) entrance to lower world Swallowed person becomes bald Cliff-ogre. Kicks victims over cliff Rectum snakes. Snakes which creep into living man and devour him Pot-tilter. Ogre who tilts a pot so that victims are drawn into it Sucking monster. Giant (sometimes a giant hall or cave) sucks in victims Man with fire moccasins. They set fire to surroundings Killing trees threaten hero Place and conditions of childbirth

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