Dead wife returns in form of bird

Motif

Dead wife returns in form of bird.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Friendly return from the dead. · Dead relative's friendly return. · view the constellation · filed as E322.4

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

North American Indigenous Myths of the Cherokee , Bird Myths — Myth 35 35. the bird tribes

Filed across the traditions

Scotch Macdougall and Calder 183
India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

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

Filed beside it

Dead wife returns and bears children for husband Dead wife returns to wake husband Wife in heaven by day, with husband by night 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

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Dead father returns in form of bird. (Cf. E322.4.)

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