Dead spouse's malevolent return. Usually to protest with survivor because of evil ways — Mythoi

Motif

Dead spouse's malevolent return. Usually to protest with survivor because of evil ways.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Malevolent return from the dead. · Dead relative's malevolent return. · view the constellation · filed as E221

Filed across the traditions

English Child II 281 No. 86
Danish Grundtvig Danmarks Gamle Folkeviser No. 89b
Lithuanian Balys Index No. 3526
Estonian Aarne FFC XXV 114 No. 6
Finnish-Swedish Wessman 6 No. 47
New York Jones JAFL LVII 245
West Indies Flowers 428.

Within the index

Filed under Dead relative's malevolent return.

5 finer motifs beneath it

Dead wife haunts husband on second marriage Dead wife returns to reprove husband's second wife Dead husband returns to reprove wife's second husband (lover) Dead husband returns to protest wife's spending his money Dead wife torments husband who has let her die of neglect

Filed beside it

Dead mother's malevolent return Ghost of murdered child Dead brother's return The dead daughter reproaches her mother for putting her dowery into coffin Dead relative's malevolent return – miscellaneous

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