Return from the dead because last will was not fulfilled

Motif

Return from the dead because last will was not fulfilled.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Malevolent return from the dead. · Return from dead to inflict punishment. · view the constellation · filed as E236.4

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

LithuanianBalys Ghosts.

Within the index

Filed under Return from dead to demand stolen property.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Ghost appears at time of death, foils lawyer who is counterfeiting a will for the newly-deceased Ghost appears to remind his brother of the terms of his will

Filed beside it

Return from dead to demand clothing stolen from grave Return from dead to demand stolen children Return from the dead to warn thief that he will be punished Return from dead to demand money stolen from corpse Ghost drives away his relatives who are trying to get estate from his wife Ghostly noises disturb village until stolen church plate is returned. (Cf. E402.)Ghost seeks repayment of stolen money

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