Dead father's friendly return

Motif

Dead father's friendly return.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Friendly return from the dead. · Dead relative's friendly return. · view the constellation · filed as E327

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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.

CheremisSebeok-Nyerges
U.S.Baughman
GreekAeschylus Prometheus Bound 195
ChineseGraham.
general Latin: Virgil Aeneid V 724

Within the index

Filed under Dead relative's friendly return.

5 finer motifs beneath it

Dead father returns to daughter to stop her weeping. (Cf. E324.)Dead father returns to encourage daughter in childbirth Dead father returns to clear son's name of crime Ghost of father returns to rebuke child Dead father returns in form of bird. (Cf. E322.4.)

Filed beside it

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

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