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See also To die and go to heaven
Keywords:
Life, death, soul, transformation
Description of this motif: Resurrection refers inevitably to the resurrection of Jesus after being killed on the cross and to the dogma of the resurrection of the flesh at The Second Coming of Christ, but there is no speaking of resurrection of the flesh with Andersen.
Overview
The tales are sorted by year. The leading numbers refer to the number of occurrences of the motif in the respective texts.
- 1 The Little Mermaid (1837)
- 1 The Flax (1848)
- 1 The Phoenix Bird (1850)
- 1 The Story of the Year (1852)
- 1 The Jewish Girl (1855)
- 1 The Old Oak Tree's Last Dream (1858)
- 2 The Marsh King's Daughter (1858)