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Motif

Dance with the dead. Girl invites dead to come from grave and dance with her. Difficult escape.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Malevolent return from the dead. · Return from dead to inflict punishment. · view the constellation · filed as E238.1

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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 Index No. 365B*
  • PrussianPlenzat 20.
  • general Balys Ghosts (E225.8)
Within the index

Filed under Dinner with the dead. Dead man is invited to dinner. Takes his host to other world.

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