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

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Scholars’ trail — 9references

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.

Finnish-SwedishWessman 4 No. 27
India*Thompson-Balys
ChineseEberhard FFC CXX 260
N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 350 n. 263, (Luiseño): DuBois UCal VIII 153
JamaicaBeckwith 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

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Dead mother returns to care for neglected baby

Carried in tale types

Little Brother and Little Sister · ATU 4508 recorded variants

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