Talking bones of eaten man advise hero

Motif

Talking bones of eaten man advise hero.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Friendly return from the dead. · Other reasons for friendly return from the dead. · view the constellation · filed as E366.3

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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.

IndiaThompson-Balys.

Within the index

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

Filed beside it

Laughing skull advises hero. (Cf. E545.)Hanged man warns youth against visiting sweetheart. Takes youth's place and receives shot meant for him

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