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 — Mythoi

Motif

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.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Malevolent return from the dead. · Dead lover's malevolent return. · view the constellation · filed as E215

Filed across the traditions

England Child V 60ff., 303
Finnish-Swedish Wessman 4 No. 28.
general *Type 365
general *Fb "død" I 228a, "ride" III 53a, "spøgelse" III 520ab
general Krumbacher Zs. f. vgl. Litt. N. F. I (1887) 214–220
general Wlislocki ibid. N.F. XI (1897) 467
general Borker Germania XXXI 117
general Dieterich Zs. f. Vksk. XII 147
general England, U.S.: *Baughman

Within the index

Filed under Dead lover's malevolent return.

Filed beside 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 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 (Thompson’s cf.)

Ghost rides behind rider on horse. (Cf. E215.) Ghost rides on horseback with rider. (Cf. E215.)

Carried in tale types

The Dead Bridegroom Carries Off his Bride · ATU 365 1 recorded variant

ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “sweetheart” · wander