Return from dead to reveal murder

Motif

Return from dead to reveal murder.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Malevolent return from the dead. · Return from dead to inflict punishment. · view the constellation · filed as E231

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Scholars’ trail — 11references

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.

New YorkJones JAFL LVII 245
North CarolinaBrown Collection I 677
West IndiesFlowers 429
Jewishbin Gorion V 213, 306, *Neuman
India*Thompson-Balys
JapaneseIkeda. N. Am. Indian (Fox): Jones PAES I 93ff., (Seneca): Curtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 173 No. 33, 670 No. 129
Eskimo (Greenland)Holm 39, Rasmussen III 145, Kroeber JAFL XII 181, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 236
Africa (Fang)Tessman 118.
general Fb "gjenganger" I 443b, "lig" II 411b
general Wimberly 261
general England, U.S.: *Baughman

Within the index

Filed under Return from dead to inflict punishment.

5 finer motifs beneath it

Ghost tells name of murderer Ghost skeleton points lance at murderer Ghost light hovers over hiding place of body of murdered person Noise of chains leads to buried ghost. (Cf. E402.1.4.)Ghost returns to murderer, causes him to confess

Filed beside it

Return from the dead to slay wicked person Ghost punishes injury received in life Return from dead to punish indignities to corpse, or ghost Return from dead to demand stolen property Dinner with the dead. Dead man is invited to dinner. Takes his host to other world Ghosts punish intruders into ghost town Ghosts punish intruders into mass (procession) of ghosts Ghosts attack bishop who has suspended priest for singing for all Christian souls Ghosts punish failure to provide for their wants. Haunt man because he does not leave food and drink for them Ghosts punish failure to sacrifice to them Ghost kills man who had had ghost exorcised for too short a time

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