Mother returns to search for dead child

Motif

Mother returns to search for dead child.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Friendly return from the dead. · Dead relative's friendly return. · view the constellation · filed as E323.5

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Yoruba The Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa , Chapter 7
Greco-Roman The Library (Bibliotheca) , BOOK III, ch. I
North American Indigenous Navaho Legends , Legend 3

Cited in the index

general England, Ireland: *Baughman.

Within the index

Filed under Dead mother's friendly return.

Filed beside it

Dead mother returns to see baby 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 encourage daughter in great difficulties Dead mother makes son strong

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