Dead mother returns to see baby

Motif

Dead mother returns to see baby.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Friendly return from the dead. · Dead relative's friendly return. · view the constellation · filed as E323.1

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“The Lightning left him a club, and said, “Man, I came here to tell you about your wife for whom you are mourning. You do not know where she is, or how she came to be missing. That old woman drowned her in the big water. The old woman broke the rope and the girl is drowned in the big water. This club you must keep in a safe place. I was sent here to you, and I will help you get your wife back, and you must not be afraid of the big water.”

— Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 69 · served from our shelf receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions

North American IndigenousTales of the North American Indians, Tale 69 receipt

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

U.S.Baughman.

Within the index

Filed under Dead mother's friendly return.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Dead mother returns to suckle child Dead mother returns to care for neglected baby

Filed beside it

Dead mother returns to aid persecuted children Dead mother called up from grave to give her son charms Advice from dead mother Mother returns to search for dead child Mother returns to encourage daughter in great difficulties Dead mother makes son strong

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Fatal swinging game. Old woman causes swing to break when her rival is swinging Princess (maiden) abducted by monster (ogre). (Cf. R10.1.)Murder by stabbing in ear. (Cf. S112.3.)

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