fe to get the marrow.
Thor stayed there that night, and in the morning he got up before dawn,
dressed, took the hammer, Miolner, and lifted it to consecrate the goats'
skins. Thereupon the goats stood up; but one of them was lame in the hind
leg. He noticed it and said that the peasant or some of his household must
have been careless with the goats' bones, for he saw that a thigh bone was
broken." We are especially to note here that the hammer is a phallic
symbol.

In fairy tales the dismemberments and revivifications occur frequently.
For example, in the tale of the Juniper Tree [Machandelboom] (Grimm, K. H.
M., No. 47), a young man is beheaded, dismembered, cooked and served up to
his father to be eaten. The father finds the dish exceptionally good. On
asking for his son he is answered that the youth has gone to visit
relatives. The father throws all the bones under the table. They are
collected by the sister, wrapped in a bit of cloth and laid under the
juniper tree. The soul of the boy soared in the air as a bird and was
afterward translated into a living youth. The Grimm brothers introduce as
a parallel: "The collection of the bones occurs in the myths of Osiris and
Orpheus, and in the legend of Adelbert; the revivification in many others,
e.g., in the tale of Brother Lustig (K. H. M., No. 81), of Fichter's Vogel
(No. 46), in the old Danish song of the Maribo-Spring, in the German saga
of the drowned child, etc." Moreover, W. Mannhardt (Germ. Mythen., pp.
57-75) has collected numerous sagas and fairy tales of this kind, in which
occur the revivifications of dismembered cattle, fish, goats, rams, birds,
and men.

The gruesome meal in the story of the juniper tree reminds us of the
Tantalus story and the meal of Thyestes. Demeter (or Thetes) ate a
shoulder of the dismembered Pelops, who was set before the gods by his
father Tantalus, and the shoulder, after he was brought to life again, was
replaced by an ivory one. In a story from the northeastern Caucasus, a
chamois similarly dismembered and brought to life, like Thor's goats, gets
an artificial shoulder (of wood).

For the purpose of being brought to life again the parts of the
dismembered animal are regularly put in a vessel or some container
(kettle, box, cloth, skin). In the case of the kettle, which corresponds
to the belly or uterus, they are generally cooked. Thus in the tale of the
juniper tree, the magic rejuvenations of Medea, which--except in the
vers