Return from the dead to slay wicked person

Motif

Return from the dead to slay wicked person.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Malevolent return from the dead. · Return from dead to inflict punishment. · view the constellation · filed as E232

ask the rhapsode about this motif →

Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

Irish mythCross
IcelandicBoberg
S. Am. Indian (Brazil)Oberg 111.
general Alphabet No. 772

Within the index

Filed under Return from dead to inflict punishment.

4 finer motifs beneath it

Return from dead to slay own murderer Ghost returns to slay man who has injured it while living Ghost kills man who interferes with ghostly activity Ghost returns to slay enemies

Filed beside it

Return from dead to reveal murder 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

wander