Orpheus. Journey to land of dead to bring back person from the dead

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Orpheus. Journey to land of dead to bring back person from the dead.

Marvels. · Other world journeys. · The lower world. · Journey to lower world. · view the constellation · filed as F81.1

“As she came around the second time another touched her with his rod, and then another and another, until at the seventh round she fell out of the ring, and they put her into the box and closed the lid fast. The other ghosts seemed never to notice what had happened. They took up the box and started home toward the east. In a little while the girl came to life again and begged to be let out of the box, but they made no answer and went on.”

— Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 55 · served from our shelf receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions

North American IndigenousTales of the North American Indians, Tale 55 receipt

On our shelf — the index’s citations, resolved to served chapters

GreekThe Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK I, ch. IIIThompson cites: Frazer Apollodorus I 17 n. 7, von den Steinen Zs. f. Vksk. XXV 260

Scholars’ trail — 18references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our public shelf are live links; research-library references point to an exact index page without serving the book; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

EnglandChild I 215ff., Wells 128 (Sir Orfeo)
NorseMacCulloch Eddic 130 → research library: John Arnott MacCulloch, Eddic Mythology (The Mythology of All Races, Vol. II), p. 130
GreekFrazer Apollodorus I 17 n. 7, von den Steinen Zs. f. Vksk. XXV 260 → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK I, ch. III
BabylonianSpence 125ff. (Ishtar)
SiberianHolmberg Siberian 491
IndiaThompson-Balys, Keith 161 (Savitri) → research library: Stith Thompson and Jonas Balys, The Oral Tales of India, p. 174
ChineseEberhard FFC CXX 198f., Graham
JapaneseAnesaki 223
IndonesiaDe Vries's list No. 160
MaoriClark III
Eskimo (Greenland)Rink 269, 298, Rasmussen III 59, 167
N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 337 n. 215, Hatt Asiatic Influences 65ff., **Gayton The Orpheus Myth in North America (JAFL XLVIII 263–293), E. W. Voegelin JAFL LX 52–58, (California): Gayton and Newman 99
SurinamAlexander Lat. Am. 275
AfricaWerner African *138ff., 196.
general **E. Maass Orpheus (München, 1895)
general Frazer Pausanias V 154
general Cosquin Études 188ff. Irish myth: *Cross
general Oceanic (New Zealand, Mangaia, Hawaii, Samoa, New Hebrides, Bankes Island, German New Guinea): Dixon 72–78

Within the index

Filed under Descent to lower world of dead (Hell, Hades).

2 finer motifs beneath it

Wife goes to land of dead to procure dead husband's heart Journey to land of dead to visit deceased

Filed beside it

Journey to hell to recover devil's contract Journey to hell to circumcize child Journey to hell to retrieve soul of mother Journey to lower world to get treasures Souls redeemed from hell in shape of sheep

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Siren. Bird with woman's head Tabu: profanely calling up spirit (devil, etc.)Tabu: rivaling the gods Tabu: eating in other world Tabu: drinking Looking tabu Transformation to escape lover Magic music Rocks moved by magic Reincarnation. Return from the dead in another form Flower from grave bears letters. These commemorate the buried person Descent to lower world of dead (Hell, Hades)

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