Return from dead to punish theft of leg from grave

Motif

Return from dead to punish theft of leg from grave.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Malevolent return from the dead. · Return from dead to inflict punishment. · view the constellation · filed as E235.4.2

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Scholars’ trail — 6references

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.

FrenchCosquin Lorraine II 76 No. 41
general *Type 366
general BP III 480
general Köhler-Bolte I 133
general Fb "rædehistorie". English: Baughman
general Gascon Bladé II 328 No. 5.

Within the index

Filed under Return from dead to punish theft of part of corpse. (Cf. E419.7.)

Filed beside it

Return from dead to punish theft of golden arm from grave Return from dead to punish theft of bone from grave Return from dead to punish theft of liver from man on gallows Return from dead to punish theft of skull Return from dead to punish theft of teeth

Carried in tale types

The Man from the Gallows · ATU 3661 recorded variant

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