Laughing skull advises hero. (Cf. E545.)

Motif

Laughing skull advises hero. (Cf. E545.)

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Friendly return from the dead. · Other reasons for friendly return from the dead. · view the constellation · filed as E366.1

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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 *Cosquin Études 351ff.

Within the index

Filed under Return from dead to give counsel. (Cf. V229.1.)

Filed beside it

Hanged man warns youth against visiting sweetheart. Takes youth's place and receives shot meant for him Talking bones of eaten man advise hero

Travels with

The dead speak

wander