Animal bodily members transferred to person or other animal retains animal powers and habits. (Cf. E781, E782.)

Motif

Animal bodily members transferred to person or other animal retains animal powers and habits. (Cf. E781, E782.)

The dead. · The soul. · Vital bodily members. · view the constellation · filed as E780.2

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

HaitiParsons MAFLS XVII (1) 59–62.
general Type 660

Within the index

Filed under Vital bodily members. They possess life independent of the rest of the body. (Cf. F1096.)

Filed beside it

Vital body: kills attacking enemies Eyes successfully replaced Limbs successfully replaced Vital head. Retains life after being cut off. (Cf. D992, F511.)Flesh regrows Vital skin. Retains life after death of owner Heart successfully replaced Stomach borrowed by animal. Later returned Severed pap regrows when woman bears child Vital bodily members – miscellaneous

Travels with

Eyes successfully replaced Limbs successfully replaced

Carried in tale types

The Three Doctors · ATU 6601 recorded variant

wander