μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Dead wife returns to another person to have him write a letter to her husband.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Friendly return from the dead. · Dead relative's friendly return. · view the constellation · filed as E322.7

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Filed across the traditions
  • England Baughman.
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 live with her husband until his death Return from dead and remarriage to husband Man talks to dead wife in grave

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