Hands restored

Motif

Hands restored.

The dead. · The soul. · Vital bodily members. · view the constellation · filed as E782.1

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Literary CrystallizationThe Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, Paradise 26
Middle EasternThe Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Chapter 2
GermanicGrimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 66.-FAITHFUL JOHN.
IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 15, Section III

Scholars’ trail — 8references

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.

Irish mythCross
Spanish ExemplaKeller, Nouvelles de Sens No. 12
ItalianBasile Pentamerone III No. 2
IndiaThompson-Balys
JapaneseIkeda.
general *Type 706
general *BP I 295
general Fb "hånd" I 765b

Within the index

Filed under Limbs successfully replaced.

1 finer motif beneath it

Substituted hand. Man exchanges his hand for that of another

Filed beside it

Substituted limbs. Man borrows various limbs and successfully uses them Substituted ribs (chariot ribs)Arms restored Horse's leg cut off and replaced Substituted tongue

Carried in tale types

The Maiden without Hands · ATU 7068 recorded variants

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