Dead sweetheart haunts faithless lover

Motif

Dead sweetheart haunts faithless lover.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Malevolent return from the dead. · Dead lover's malevolent return. · view the constellation · filed as E211

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

EnglishChild I 426
U.S.Baughman, (North Carolina): Brown Collection I 676, (New York): Jones JAFL LVII 245
general Corsican: Ortoli Contes Pop. de la Corse (Paris, 1883) 322, 330.

Within the index

Filed under Dead lover's malevolent return.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Dead sweetheart in the form of a white rabbit follows seducer Dead sweetheart appears to seducer every evening, even after he has married another woman

Filed beside it

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

Ghost of person abandoned by faithless lover. (Cf. E211ff.)

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