Ghost of murdered child

Motif

Ghost of murdered child.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Malevolent return from the dead. · Dead relative's malevolent return. · view the constellation · filed as E225

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Greco-Roman Pausanias's Description of Greece , Book 6
Literary Crystallization Moby-Dick; or, The Whale , 126
Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter XX XX. Tabooed Persons
Greco-Roman The Library (Bibliotheca) , BOOK III, ch. V
Literary Crystallization Ulysses , 9 Scylla and Charybdis

Filed across the traditions

English *Child I 218 No. 20
Estonian Aarne FFC XXV 114 No. 9
Finnish Aarne FFC XXXIII 39 No. 9
Lappish Qvigstad FFC LX 40 No. 3
New York Jones JAFL LVII 241, 244
Eskimo (Greenland) Rink 392, 410, (Smith Sound): Kroeber JAFL XII 181.
general Tobler 30

Within the index

Filed under Dead relative's malevolent return.

1 finer motif beneath it

Ghost of abortion

Filed beside it

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