μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Dead grateful for prayers.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Friendly return from the dead. · Return from dead to repay obligation. · view the constellation · filed as E341.3

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish O'Suilleabhain 102, Baughman.
  • general Tatlock MPh XXII 211f.
  • general Alphabet Nos. 18, 519, 587
  • general Nouvelles de Sens No. 15
Within the index

Filed under The grateful dead.

Filed beside it
Dead grateful for having corpse ransomed. Corpse is being held unburied because of nonpayment of debts. Hero pays debt and secures burial of corpse Dead grateful for food Dead grateful for clothes (shirt) Grateful priest returns to save gambler from devil
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Ghost of priest cannot rest because he failed to say certain masses for the dead. (Cf. E341.3, Q521.6.)

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