39 motifs match “revive”  ·  back to the chapters

• Shrew blows nose into snout. Sent after fire, he finds but a little which he tries to revive by hard blowing. A2211.5
• Pelican kills young and revives them with own blood. B751.2
• Snake revives snakes which have been injured (the doctor snake). B765.21
• Tabu: striking monster twice. Though monster begs that hero strike him again, hero refuses. Monster would otherwise revive. C742
• Magic club kills and revives. (Cf. D1094.) D1663.1.1
• Piece of wood revives memory. (Cf. D956.) D2006.1.8
• Sun revived by own power after being killed by moon. E4
• Resuscitation when strangling corset-lace breaks. Girl laced so tightly in corset that she faints. Brothers carry her to her grave. They stumble. Corset-lace breaks and girl revives. E21.2
• Limbs of dead voluntarily reassemble and revive. E31
• Resuscitated eaten animal. (Cf. E171.) An animal is eaten. When his bones are reassembled he revives. E32
• Resuscitation by mummified dog. Dog is kept in box. Revives and resuscitates dead hero. E53.1
• Apparently dead persons revived when certain thing happens. Proper prince appears, or the like. E68
• Sun and moon steal wonderful tree which revives dead man or animal. E90.1
• The cooked and revived child. Saint to a woman: "Cook me what you like most." Gullible woman cooks son. Saint revives child. E121.4.1
• Slain warriors revive nightly. Continue fighting the next day. E155.1
• Soldiers of magic army constantly revived. E155.1.2
• Nightly resuscitation of man with external soul. When enemy takes off necklace containing the soul he revives, but dies again when it is put on. E155.3
• Person dead during day, revived at night. E155.4
• Slain pigs revive nightly. E155.5
• King eaten every morning: revived daily. E155.6
• Killed game revives and flies away. E161
• Bones wrapped in sheepskin inscribed with holy name revive. E174
• Ashes of burnt hero revive. E174.1
• Man advised how to resuscitate his mother: break waternuts on her head: she would revive and live one year for each nut broken. E181.1.1
• Student revives whole family following instructions given by demon. E181.2
• Maiden who has been falsely accused apparently dies of sorrow. She revives on being prepared for burial. F1041.1.3.1
• Witch revives dead. (Cf. E0.) G263.5
• Ogre revives after limbs are severed. G635
• Quest for pigs killed by night and revived by day. H1331.2.3
• Stupid cowherds apply hot iron to temples of unconscious man to revive him. J2119.7
• Apparently dead woman revives when thief tries to steal from her grave. K426
• Fatal game: dying and reviving. Hero has power of resuscitation but fails to revive his enemy. K856
• Apparently dead woman revives as she is being prepared for burial. Cf. Type 990. N694
• Apparently dead woman revives when dropped. Had swallowed a bone. Lover exhumes her. Stumbles as he carries her. She revives and later marries him. N694.1
• Lover finds lady in tomb apparently dead. She revives and marries him. T37
• "Poisoned" woman revives. Husband tries to poison wife. Student substitutes sleeping potion for poison, takes her from the tomb. When she revives he claims her as his own. T37.0.1
• Despairing lover at lady's tomb takes poison. She revives to learn of his fatal error and shares his fate. (Romeo and Juliet.) T37.1
• Disappointed lover buys poison for girl. Druggist substitutes sleeping potion. Girl revives and is reconciled. T93.4
• Lie: air from healthy climate revives dying person. X1663.1