Dead husband returns, asks wife to make him coffee

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Dead husband returns, asks wife to make him coffee.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Friendly return from the dead. · Dead relative's friendly return. · view the constellation · filed as E321.3

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Middle EasternThe Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Chapter 7

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U.S.Baughman.

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Dead husband sends his ring to his wife Dead husband returns and lives with his wife. He is invisible to others. (Cf. F378.)Ghost often visits his widow and her new husband Ghost appears often to wife and daughter

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