μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Return from dead as punishment for trying to raise ghost. (Cf. E384ff., F491.7.) Ghost accuses man of stealing a trifle and thus has revenge.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Malevolent return from the dead. · Return from dead to inflict punishment. · view the constellation · filed as E235.3

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • England*Baughman.
  • general Fb "stjæle" III 575b
Within the index

Filed under Return from dead to punish indignities to corpse, or ghost.

Filed beside it
Ghost punishes person who mocks himGhost returns to demand proper burialReturn from dead to punish theft of part of corpse. (Cf. E419.7.)Return from dead to punish kicking of skull. (Cf. C13.)Return from dead to punish disturber of graveReturn from the dead to capture thiefCorpse of saint sits up and looks at people who open grave and come to claim his body
Travels with
Ghost summoned by music

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