Dead mother returns to aid persecuted children

Motif

Dead mother returns to aid persecuted children.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Friendly return from the dead. · Dead relative's friendly return. · view the constellation · filed as E323.2

Filed across the traditions

Italian Basile Pentamerone I No. 6
Jewish Neuman
West Indies Flowers 429
general *Types 510A, 511, 923
general Cox 475 n. 4
general *BP I 165ff.
general *MacCulloch Childhood 108
general *Cosquin Contes indiens 504ff.
general Oceanic (Hawaii, Indonesia, Micronesia, Melanesia): Dixon 89 nn. 97–100
general Africa (Cameroons): Mansfield 228.

Within the index

Filed under Dead mother's friendly return.

1 finer motif beneath it

Dead mother (in animal form) returns to aid persecuted children

Filed beside it

Dead mother returns to see baby 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

Carried in tale types

Cinderella · ATU 510A 16 recorded variants

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