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

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

Filed across the traditions

Haiti Parsons 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 (Thompson’s cf.)

Eyes successfully replaced Limbs successfully replaced

Carried in tale types

The Three Doctors · ATU 660 1 recorded variant

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