μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Person lives on after being cut through by sword.

Marvels. · Extraordinary occurrences. · Other extraordinary events. · view the constellation · filed as F1096

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross.
Within the index

Filed under Other extraordinary events.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Person lives on after having heart cut free. Heart moves about within his chest Person lives on with intestines exposed Severed head bites earth
Filed beside it
Sunbeam as support Dice game that lasts for nine years Extraordinary occurrences connected with shoes Man carries extraordinary luggage Man washes clothes blindfolded Extraordinary flights through air Extraordinary descent into ocean Creation of a person by cooperation of skillful men Objects go journeying together Ship wrapped with feather-beds and canvass and pitched (so as to save it) Person walks unceasingly for year Person lives without food or drink for a year (or more) Person concealed in another's body Disintegration: man eats himself up or dismembers himself Hand from heaven writes on wall Object thrown from heaven
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Vital bodily members. They possess life independent of the rest of the body. (Cf. F1096.)

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