Ghost returns to protect the living

Motif

Ghost returns to protect the living.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Friendly return from the dead. · Other reasons for friendly return from the dead. · view the constellation · filed as E363.2

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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.

IndiaThompson-Balys.
general England, U.S., Wales: *Baughman

Within the index

Filed under Ghost returns to aid living.

Filed beside it

Ghost aids living in emergency Ghost warns the living Dead reassures living Dead provide material aid to living Ghost aids living otherwise

Travels with

Person sees his own wraith; the wraith saves his life. (Cf. E363.2.)

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