Ghost warns the living

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Ghost warns 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 E363.3

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

general England, Scotland, U.S.: *Baughman.

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

Travels with

The dead foretell the future. (Cf. E363.3, E576.)Dead predict death. (Cf. E363.3.)

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