The grateful dead

Motif

The grateful dead.

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

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

Irish*Cross, Beal XXI 313
IcelandicBoberg.

Within the index

Filed under Return from dead to repay obligation.

5 finer motifs beneath 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 prayers Dead grateful for clothes (shirt)Grateful priest returns to save gambler from devil

Filed beside it

Dead return to fulfill bargain Dead returns to repair injury Dead returns to repay money debt Dead returns to restore stolen goods Dead man asks that certain girl be married to him because in life he seduced her

Travels with

Rescue by grateful dead man. (Cf. E341.)

Carried in tale types

The Grateful Dead · ATU 5058 recorded variants
The Man who Flew like a Bird and Swam like a Fish · ATU 6654 recorded variants
The Monster's Bride · ATU 5071 recorded variant

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