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

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

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

North American IndigenousMyths of the Cherokee, Quadruped Myths — Myth 2323. THE RABBIT DINES THE BEAR

Scholars’ trail — 8references

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.

U.S.Baughman
BretonSébillot Incidents s. v. "repas"
LithuanianBalys Index No. 470A*
EstonianAarne in FFC XX No. 472*
SpanishBoggs 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

Friends in Life and Death [M253] · ATU 4701 recorded variant

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