Return from dead to demand stolen property

Motif

Return from dead to demand stolen property.

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

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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.

IcelandicBoberg
LithuanianBalys Index No. 3565
general *Fb "spøgelse" III 520a
general N. Carolina: Brown Collection I 676.

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8 finer motifs beneath 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 the dead because last will was not fulfilled 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

Filed beside it

Return from dead to reveal murder Return from the dead to slay wicked person Ghost punishes injury received in life Return from dead to punish indignities to corpse, or ghost 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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