Hands restored — Mythoi

Motif

Hands restored.

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

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Literary Crystallization The Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise , Paradise 26
Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 2
Germanic Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes , Tale 6 6.-FAITHFUL JOHN.
Indic The Mahābhārata , Book 15, Section III

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross
Spanish Exempla Keller, Nouvelles de Sens No. 12
Italian Basile Pentamerone III No. 2
India Thompson-Balys
Japanese Ikeda.
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 706 8 recorded variants

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