Dead mother's friendly return

Motif

Dead mother's friendly return.

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

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Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

BretonSébillot Incidents s. v. "mère"
LithuanianBalys Index No. 3527
Jewish*Neuman.
general *Jellinek Zs f. Vksk. XIV 323f.
general *Fb "moder" II 600b, "spøgelse" III 520a

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Filed under Dead relative's friendly return.

7 finer motifs beneath 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 search for dead child Mother returns to encourage daughter in great difficulties Dead mother makes son strong

Filed beside it

Dead husband's friendly return Dead wife's friendly return. (Cf. E221.2.)Dead child's friendly return to parents. Frequently to stop weeping. (Cf. P230.)Dead sister's friendly return Dead brother's friendly return Dead father's friendly return

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