Dead mother returns to care for neglected baby

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Dead mother returns to care for neglected baby.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Friendly return from the dead. · Dead relative's friendly return. · view the constellation · filed as E323.1.2

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

IndiaThompson-Balys
PapuaKer 131
Eskimo (Greenland)Rasmussen III 67.
general Tobler 92f.

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Dead mother returns to suckle child

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