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- Pelican kills young and revives them with own blood. B751.2
- Snake revives snakes which have been injured (the doctor snake). B765.21
- Magic club kills and revives. (Cf. D1094.) D1663.1.1
- Piece of wood revives memory. (Cf. D956.) D2006.1.8
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Killed game revives and flies away. E161
- 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
- Apparently dead woman revives when thief tries to steal from her grave. K426
- 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
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