Dead lover's malevolent return

Motif

Dead lover's malevolent return.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Malevolent return from the dead. · Dead lover's malevolent return. · view the constellation · filed as E210

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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North CarolinaBrown Collection I 681
EstonianAarne FFC XXV 114 No. 8.
general *R. Arbesmann The Dead Bridegroom in South American Folklore (Thought XIX [March 1944] 95–111)

Within the index

6 finer motifs beneath it

Dead sweetheart haunts faithless lover Dead lover sets tasks. If girl does not perform them (or answer his questions) he will carry her off Dead lover haunts faithless sweetheart The Dead Rider (Lenore). Dead lover returns and takes sweetheart with him on horseback. She is sometimes saved at the grave by the crowing of the cock, though the experience is usually fatal Fatal kiss from dead Spells to recall dead lover. Boiling dead man's head, bones, or carcass in a pot, or burning a piece of lover's clothing or cat in a hot oven

Travels with

Dead lover's friendly return. (Cf. E210.)

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