Dead mother returns to suckle child

Motif

Dead mother returns to suckle child.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Friendly return from the dead. · Dead relative's friendly return. · view the constellation · filed as E323.1.1

Filed across the traditions

Finnish-Swedish Wessman 4 No. 27
India *Thompson-Balys
Chinese Eberhard FFC CXX 260
N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 350 n. 263, (Luiseño): DuBois UCal VIII 153
Jamaica Beckwith MAFLS XVII 266 No. 74, 275 No. 88.
general *Types 403, 450
general *BP I 96
general *Jellinek Zs. f. Vksk. XIV 323
general Africa (Kweli): Sieber 89

Within the index

Filed under Dead mother returns to see baby.

Filed beside it

Dead mother returns to care for neglected baby

Carried in tale types

Little Brother and Little Sister · ATU 450 8 recorded variants

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