μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Dead lover's friendly return. (Cf. E210.)

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Friendly return from the dead. · Dead lover's friendly return. · view the constellation · filed as E310

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • Icelandic Boberg
  • German Erk-Böhme Deutscher Liederhort No. 201a
  • N. Am. Indian (Pawnee) Grinnell Pawnee Hero Stories (New York, 1889) 191, Dorsey CI LIX 126 No. 34, (Sioux): Dorsey RBAE XI 490, (Zuñi): Cushing 19.
Within the index
1 finer motif beneath it
Return from dead to return and ask back love tokens
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Dead lover's malevolent return

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