Fatal kiss from dead

Motif

Fatal kiss from dead.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Malevolent return from the dead. · Dead lover's malevolent return. · view the constellation · filed as E217

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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 439, II 229ff., 236f., III 512f., IV 474f.

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Filed under Dead lover's malevolent return.

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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 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 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

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