The constellation
E322 Dead wife's friendly return. (Cf. E221.2.)
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- Dead wife returns and bears children for husband · E322.1 entry
- Dead wife returns to wake husband · E322.2 entry
- Wife in heaven by day, with husband by night · E322.3 entry
- Dead wife returns in form of bird · E322.4 entry
- Man carries his dead wife with him · E322.5 entry
- Dead wife returns to live with her husband until his death · E322.6 entry
- Dead wife returns to another person to have him write a letter to her husband · E322.7 entry
- Return from dead and remarriage to husband · E322.8 entry
- Man talks to dead wife in grave · E322.9 entry
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