Head cut off and successfully replaced

Motif

Head cut off and successfully replaced.

The dead. · The soul. · Vital bodily members. · view the constellation · filed as E783.1

Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

IrishMacCulloch Celtic 61, *Cross
IndiaThompson-Balys
S. Am. Indian (Quiché)Alexander Lat. Am. 175
Africa (Angola)Chatelain 113 No. 8, (Bushman): Bleek and Lloyd 10.
general *Kittredge Gawain 147ff.

Within the index

Filed under Vital head. Retains life after being cut off. (Cf. D992, F511.)

Filed beside it

Severed head regrows Severed head reddens and whitens Severed head opens eyes Vital head speaks Headless body vital Headless man lives four (seven) years. (Cf. Q551.8.5.)Dead head grateful for burying it

Carried in tale types

St · ATU 774A1 recorded variant

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