μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

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

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

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • U.S. Baughman
  • Breton Sébillot Incidents s. v. "repas"
  • Lithuanian Balys Index No. 470A*
  • Estonian Aarne in FFC XX No. 472*
  • Spanish Boggs FFC XC No. 835*. Cf. Eskimo (Greenland): Holm 79.
  • general *Type 470
  • general **MacKay
  • general Hartland Science 192f.
Within the index

Filed under Return from dead to inflict punishment.

1 finer motif beneath it
Dance with the dead. Girl invites dead to come from grave and dance with her. Difficult escape
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 Return from dead to demand stolen property 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
Carried in tale types

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