Dead mother's malevolent return

Motif

Dead mother's malevolent return.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Malevolent return from the dead. · Dead relative's malevolent return. · view the constellation · filed as E222

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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.

IrishO'Suilleabhain 94, 104, Beal XXI 330, 333.

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Filed under Dead relative's malevolent return.

4 finer motifs beneath it

Mother haunts daughter Mother's ghost tries to tear daughter to pieces Dead mother haunts daughter who marries against mother's will Dead mother returns to invoke curse on murderer-son

Filed beside it

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