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

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

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

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

IrishO'Suilleabhain 104, Beal XXI 333
IndiaThompson-Balys
N. Am. Indian (Iroquois)Smith RBAE II 103, (Pawnee): Grinnell Pawnee Hero Stories (New York, 1889) 129, (Osage): Dorsey FM VII 43 No. 36.

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9 finer motifs beneath 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 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

Filed beside it

Dead husband's friendly return Dead mother's friendly return Dead child's friendly return to parents. Frequently to stop weeping. (Cf. P230.)Dead sister's friendly return Dead brother's friendly return Dead father's friendly return

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Dead wife returns to reprove husband's second wife

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