μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Man carries his dead wife with him.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Friendly return from the dead. · Dead relative's friendly return. · view the constellation · filed as E322.5

Cited in the index
  • general *Jellinek Zs. f. Vksk. XIV 323f.
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 Dead wife returns in form of bird 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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