Dead wife returns to wake husband

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Dead wife returns to wake husband.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Friendly return from the dead. · Dead relative's friendly return. · view the constellation · filed as E322.2

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general *Types 403, 450. New York: Jones JAFL LVII 245.

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Filed under Dead wife's friendly return. (Cf. E221.2.)

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Dead wife returns and asks husband to go with her to spirit world

Filed beside it

Dead wife returns and bears children for husband Wife in heaven by day, with husband by night Dead wife returns in form of bird Man carries his dead wife with him Dead wife returns to live with her husband until his death Dead wife returns to another person to have him write a letter to her husband Return from dead and remarriage to husband Man talks to dead wife in grave

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