Return from the dead to stop weeping

Motif

Return from the dead to stop weeping.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Friendly return from the dead. · Other reasons for friendly return from the dead. · view the constellation · filed as E361

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Scholars’ trail — 10references

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.

EnglishChild II 234ff., 512., III 513, V 62, 294
Finnish-SwedishWessman 2 No. 18
PersianCarnoy 345.
general *BP II 485
general Wimberly 110, 230ff.
general Hdwb. d. Märchens I 433a s. v. "Eddamärchen"
general Hdwb. d. Abergl. II 831
general Legenda Aurea (ed. Grässe) 132
general *Fb "hånd" I 765a, "tåre" III 947a, "græde" IV 187b
general Dieterich Zs. f. Vksk. XII 147. Icelandic: *Boberg

Within the index

Filed under Other reasons for friendly return from the dead.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Tear from upper world of mortals falls on departed in lower world. Dead brother sends message of comfort to living Return from dead to give consoling message Dead son tells mother that no mortal escapes death

Filed beside it

Ghost returns to aid living Dead returns to say farewell Return from dead to ask forgiveness Return from dead to give counsel. (Cf. V229.1.)Return from dead to preach repentance Pupil returns from dead to warn master of futility of his studies Return from dead to reveal hidden treasure. (Cf. E276, E291, E419.11.2.)Return from the dead to seek hidden treasure Ghosts bestow gifts on living Dead returns to life and tells of journey to land of dead Return from dead to prevent flight of thief Ghost returns to confess misdeed Return from dead to teach living Friendly return from the dead – other motifs

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