Dead lover haunts faithless sweetheart — Mythoi

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Dead lover haunts faithless sweetheart.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Malevolent return from the dead. · Dead lover's malevolent return. · view the constellation · filed as E214

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Dead lover returns to dance with fickle sweetheart at her wedding

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Dead sweetheart haunts faithless lover Dead lover sets tasks. If girl does not perform them (or answer his questions) he will carry her off 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