Dead wife returns to live with her husband until his death

Motif

Dead wife returns to live with her husband until his death.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Friendly return from the dead. · Dead relative's friendly return. · view the constellation · filed as E322.6

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

U.S.*Baughman
S. Am. Indian (Cashinawa)Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 685.

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 Man carries his dead wife with him 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

Cohabitation of living person and ghost. This usually involves sexual relations. (Cf. E321.2, E322.6, E339, E378.)

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