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

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

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Scholars’ trail — 7references

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EnglishChild II 281 No. 86
DanishGrundtvig Danmarks Gamle Folkeviser No. 89b
LithuanianBalys Index No. 3526
EstonianAarne FFC XXV 114 No. 6
Finnish-SwedishWessman 6 No. 47
New YorkJones JAFL LVII 245
West IndiesFlowers 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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